text:  The least disparagement of virtue the slightest admiration for trifling and merely extrinsic objects may produce an indelible effect on the tender mind of youth; and the mother who has taught her son to bow down to success to pay homage to wealth and station which virtue and genius should alone appropriate is the person to whom the meanness of the crouching sycophant the treachery of the trading politician the brutality of the selfish tyrant and the avarice of the sordid miser in after life must be attributed