where he can, not where he should.

Fourthly, Being entirely void of reason, he pursues no point either
of morality or instruction, but is ludicrous only for the sake of
being so.

Fifthly, Being incapable of anything but mock representations, his
ridicule is always personal, and aimed at the vicious man, or the
writer; not at the vice, or at the writing.

I have here only pointed at the whole species of false humorists;
but, as one of my principal designs in this paper is to beat down
that malignant spirit which discovers itself in the writings of the
present age, I shall not scruple, for the future, to single out any
of the small wits that infest the world with such compositions as
are ill-natured, immoral, and absurd. This is the only exception
which I shall make to the general rule I have prescribed myself, of
attacking multitudes; since every honest man ought to look upon
himself as in a natural state of war with the libeller and
lampooner, and to annoy them wherever they fall in his way. This is
but retaliating upon them, and treating them as they treat others.



SA GA YEAN QUA RASH TOW'S IMPRESSIONS OF LONDON.



Nunquam aliud natura, aliud sapientia dicit.
JUV., Sat. xiv. 321.