“Taste was never made to cater for vanity.”—­Blair.  The primitive word make seldom, if ever, produces a construction that is thus equivocal.  The infinitive following it without to, always denotes the effect of the making, and not the purpose of the maker; as, “He made his son Skjoeld be received there as king.”—­North.  Antiq., p. 81.  But the same meaning may be conveyed when the to is used; as,

   “The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace;
    And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.”—­Waller, p. 56.

OBS. 12.—­Of the verb NEED. I incline to think, that the word need, whenever it is rightly followed by the infinitive without to, is, in reality an auxiliary of the potential mood; and that, like may, can, and must, it may properly be used, in both the present and the perfect tense, without personal inflection:  as, “He need not go, He need not have gone;” where, if need is a principal verb, and governs the infinitive without to, the expressions must be, “He needs not go, He needed not go, or, He has not needed go.”  But none of these three forms is agreeable; and the last two are never used.  Wherefore, in stead of placing in my code of false syntax the numerous examples of the former kind, with which the style of our grammarians and critics has furnished me, I have exhibited many of them, in contrast with others, in the eighth and ninth observations on the Conjugation of Verbs; in which observations, the reader may see what reasons there are for supposing the word need to be sometimes an auxiliary and sometimes a principal verb.  Because no other author has yet intentionally recognized the propriety of this distinction, I have gone no farther than to show on what grounds, and with what authority from usage, it might be acknowledged.  If we adopt this distinction, perhaps it will be found that the regular or principal verb need always requires, or, at least, always admits, the preposition to before the following infinitive; as, “They need not to be specially indicated.”—­Adams’s Rhet., i, 302.  “We need only to remark.”—­Ib., ii, 224.  “A young man needed only to ask himself,” &c.—­Ib., i, 117.  “Nor is it conceivable to me, that the lightning of a Demosthenes could need to be sped upon the wings of a semiquaver.”—­Ib., ii, 226.  “But these people need to be informed.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 220.  “No man needed less to be informed.”—­Ib., p. 175.  “We need only to mention the difficulty that arises.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 362. “Can there need to be argument to prove so plain a point?”—­Graham’s Lect.  “Moral instruction needs to have a more prominent place.”—­Dr.