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a representation for the board of Trustees, and
clothed with the the powers
of a professor in the university and a member of
the faculty Tho' indeed we have been
given the ascendency to different principles
from what he has inculcated; yet in a society
so largely and so promiscuously made up as
that of the university, there must always be
a small member that will
be licentiously diposed, and convinced with
difficulty of the rules of their duty. But when
a professor who conduct is to be their
example and whose principles are to be respected,
openly teaches that morality is absurd, that
virtue is a mere name, that patriotism
is unrealy, and that vice may always be explained
away by resolving its temptations into mrere
circumstances that will justify the commission of it, how are we to expect that
his friends and dupes will not be numerous
and troublesome. And is it not to be
apprehended that after having been here nursed
in the belief of such sentiments they will enter
on the open practice of them when they come
to act for themselves.
But his principles will be more fully disclosed
in the account we are to give of his conduct
The particulars of this before we arrived at
this place we may not very [??] detail;
but it may be of consequence to mention