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has much to do with their ultimate success. Some are 

 sure to say the hardships and difference in living are 

 greater than they anticipated, aiid others similarly circum- 

 stanced will declare that the hfe is by no means so rough as 

 they expected ; all will not meet with the same success, all 

 will not be equally contented. Some, after a thorough trial, 

 m.ay not like the occupation or be fitted for it ; and to these 

 openings in commercial life may present themselves, but 

 such opportunities are not much more numerous there than 

 in England. Others may not do well, from, circumstances 

 over which the agent who places them can have no control ; 

 and some few would be of a class who would not succeed 

 anywhere. For the last, the kindest thing their friends 

 can do is to leave them fairly started, entirely dependent 

 on their own exertions, and not to be continually sending 

 them money from home ; for no one need suffer want who 

 Steadiness has ordinary bodily health ; and the steadiness which this 

 mode of life will sooner or .later beget is an excellent 

 course of training. The moral drawn from Robinson 

 Crusoe, from his experience, will still apply, that " the 

 diligent lived well and comfortably, and the slothful lived 

 hard and beggarly, and so I believe, generally speaking, it 

 ,is all over the world." We cannot be responsible for the 

 consequences of irreyular conduct ; the system here recom- 

 menaed as a safe training and a valuable opening in life is 

 based upon sobriety, steadinesss, self-control, good health and 

 jjrojjer jjhysical capacity. 



We believe that a young man when fairly started 

 should depend for success mainly on his own exertions, and 

 asrree with a recent writer in " rfcribner " that — - 



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" The young man who is saved from the effort of making his 

 own way in the world, and the necessity of establishing his own 

 position, is denied the most powei-fm stimulus to labour and 

 development. The young men who are coming every year out of 

 the colleges and the professional schools of the country, and 

 starting into active lite, will win success or sink into failure, 

 mainly in accordance with the amount of stimulus under which 

 their education has been acquired. If they have been obliged to 

 labour until they have learned the value or money ; if they have 

 been forced into close economies, and learned also how difficult it 

 is to keep it; if they have grown up with the consciousness upon 

 them that everything they hope for in the world must be won by 



