The Reward of the Profeion
The probability that any peron hould ever be qualified for the employment to which he i educated, i very different in different occupation. In the greater part of mechanic trade, ucce i almot certain; but very uncertain in the liberal profeion. Put your on apprentice to a hoemaker,
there i little doubt of hi learning to make a pair of hoe, but end him to tudy the law, it i at leat twenty to one if ever he make uch a proficiency a it will enable him to live by the buine. In a perfectly fair lottery,thoe who draw the prize ought to gain all that i lot by thoe who draw the blank. In a profeion where twenty fail for one that ucceed, that one ought to gain all that
hould have been gained by the unucceful nineteen. The counellor at law, who, perhap, at near forty year of age, begin to make omething by hi profeion, ought to receive the retribution, not only of hi own o tediou and expenive education, but of that of more than ten other who are never likely to make anything by it. How extravagant oever the fee of counellor at law may ometime appear, their real retribution i never equal to thi.
Thoe profeion keep their level, however, with other occupation, and notwithtanding thee dicouragement, all the mot generou and liberal pirit are eager to crowd into them. Two different caue contribute to recommend them.Firt, the deire of the reputation which attend upon uperior[由www.hAozuowEn.com整理]
excellence in any of them; and, econdly, the natural confidence which every man ha, more or le, not only in hi own abilitie, but in hi own good fortune.
To excel in any profeion, in which but few arrive at mediocrity, i the mot deciive mark of what i called geniu or uperior talent. The public admiration which attend upon uch ditinguihed abilitie, make alway a part of the