Otherwise, during their upbringing our guardians will be surrounded by the pernicious pasturage of images of badness, which will be so common that they’ll often be nibbling and feeding on them, day in and day out, a little at a time, until without realizing it they’ll amass badness in their minds.
Some kind of Greek Victorianism! Early non-religious origins of conservatism embedded within current day republicanism like in the US