text:  If this be true of professions in which after a season of severe study a term of probation the knowledge acquired in early life sustains the professor with added experience of every day throughout the rest of his career with how much more force will it apply to professions or pursuits in which the mind is perpetually on the rack to produce novelties and in which it is considered derogatory to a man to reproduce his own ideas copy his own pictures or multiply after the same model a variety of characters and figures! A few years of hard reading constant attention in the chambers of the conveyancer the equity craftsman the pleader and a few years more of that disinterested observance of the practice of the courts which is liberally afforded to every young barrister and indeed which many enjoy throughout life and he is competent with moderate talent to protect the interests of his client and with moderate mental labour to make a respectable figure in his profession