ABSTRACT
While this occurred in the kitchen, Dr. Homily, the owner of the mansion, was engaged in a warm argument / with two gentlemen, his visitors, in the parlour. ‘I see, my good friend,’ said Dr. Sourby, puffing his pipe violently, ‘that you will never get the better of that narrow prejudice and partiality for your native country, which taints and perverts all your views, principles, and arguments. It is an error of the old school, which our modern philosophy has sufficiently exposed. A wise and good man should live, think, and act, for the whole world, and not for a little corner of it.’
