So I thought
my nature had a kind of familiarity and relationship with Truth.
"Nevertheless, because my birth and education had seasoned me in
business of State; and because opinions (so young as I was) would
sometimes stagger me; and because I thought that a man's own country
has some special claims upon him more than the rest of the world;
and because I hoped that, if I rose to any place of honour in the
State, I should have a larger command of industry and ability to
help me in my work--for these reasons I both applied myself to
acquire the arts of civil life, and commended my service, so far as
in modesty and honesty I might, to the favour of such friends as had
any influence. In which also I had another motive: for I felt that
those things I have spoken of--be they great or small--reach no
further than the condition and culture of this mortal life; and I
was not without hope (the condition of religion being at that time
not very prosperous) that if I came to hold office in the State, I
might get something done too for the good of men's souls.
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