"As it is a laudable freedom of thought which unshackles their minds from the poor and narrow prejudices of education, and opens their eyes to a more extensive view of the publick good; the same freedom of thought disposes several of them to the embracing of particular schemes and maxims, and to a certain singularity of opinion which proves highly prejudicial to their cause."
Freeholder, No. 29
Addison, Joseph. <u>Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays</u>. Ed. Christine Dunn Henderson and Mark E. Yellin, with a Foreword by Forrest McDonald. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004.