ABSTRACT
In pursuance of the plan of life which the Doctor had marked out for his grandson, it was proposed that he should / finish his education at the university of Oxford; but he was persuaded by Dr. Sourby to let Tim graduate at an American college in the neighbourhood, of which the Doctor was a tutor. Our hero set out on this expedition accompanied by his faithful Sancho. He was admitted a member after due examination, took chambers, and commenced his studies with great alacrity and intenseness. The favourite branches cultivated at this seminary, were logic, metaphysics, the laws of nature and nations, and the most abstruse school divinity. Edwards on Freewill, Locke, Sidney, Collins, Berkeley, Trenchard, Shaftsbury, the Rights of the Christian Church, the Independent Whig, and other authors of this stamp, 63 were in great currency among the students. Skill in disputation was much studied and admired. So much did the argumentative itch, the cacoethes disputandi, 64 prevail here, that their evenings were generally spent in discussing together the doctrines / of freewill, predestination, personal identity, the idea of power, infinity, substance, immateriality, 65 the equality of men, state of nature, origin of government, and the like.
