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is not strictly applicable to science, and only becomes so as we 

 recede from those which are purely intellectual, and approach 

 those arts which depend almost entirely upon physical skill. 



To select an instance, with which my pursuits have made 

 me familiar — the profession of the Law ; we find that in Eng- 

 land it is composed of the attorney, the solicitor, the convey- 

 ancer, the special pleader, and the barrister, exclusive of ex- 

 tensive classes whose studies and practice are confined to the 

 couits of civil law. Each of these is a distinct profession, se- 

 parated by almost insuperable barriers, and the evils frequently 

 arising from the ignorance of even eminent individuals, in all 

 but one pecuhar branch, are great and notorious* Here, on 

 the contrary, instead of this grave array, we have the lawyer, 

 practising in all the courts, and discharging alternately, and 

 often in the course of the same day, the appropriate duties of 

 these different branches. He may not, perhaps, be as deeply 

 skilled in chicanery and trick as is the English attorney, nor 

 possess the same minute and accurate acquaintance with the 

 laws respecting the transmission of property as the conveyan- 

 cer, nor have acquired the classical learning and polished elo- 



