Instead of this passion, naturally allied to grace and manners, they infuse into their youth an unfashioned, indelicate, sour, gloomy, ferocious medley of pedantry and lewdness,--of metaphysical speculations blended with the coarsest sensuality.
Burke condemns the negative influences on youth that replace graceful passion with a mix of pedantry and lewdness.
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