Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Cristian life

This is a philosophy book. There is nothing pretended or supposed to be in them which is not obvious: but Truths the most evident, are sometimes overlooked, or not sufficiently and universally attended to: And where these are Truths of moment, it is no ill Service, by frequent representations of them, to procure them attention. I think there can be few heartily concerned for the Vice and Immorality that abounds amongst us, who have not sometimes reflected upon loose or careless Education, as one cause thereof: But yet the great weight that right Instruction and Discipline of Youth, is of, in respect both of Peoples present and future Felicity, is (as I take it) far from being generally so settled in the Minds of Parents, as to be steadily looked upon by them as the one thing to that degree necessary, that without due care taken thereof, all other indeavours, to render their Children happy, either in this Life, or in that which is to come, are likely to be very in-efficacious.