=Motto.= "The Athenians raised a colossal statue to Æsop, though a
slave, and placed it on a lasting foundation, to show that the path of
Honor is open to all."--Phaedrus, _Epilogue_, 2.
=80=: 4. =Corruption of manners in servants.= For interesting
details, see Ashton's _Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne_, Chap.
vi, Servants. Steele had already written a paper on the subject,
_Spectator_, No. 88.
=83=: 4. =Put his servants into independent livelihoods.= Note the
inconsistency of the statement with those of the previous paper. The
two papers were written at the same time,--they were printed on two
consecutive days,--and Steele and Addison, it is evident, did not very
carefully avoid slight inconsistencies.