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"Can men keep their health and strength as celibates till such time as they have the means to marry?" is the question we have, then, to face. Is the standard of the moral law possible to men who have to maintain a high level of physical efficiency in the sharp competition of modern life? Primarily, the answer to this question must come from the acknowledged heads of the medical profession.
If you are unable to make up your quantum, my boy, you had better address yourself to a principal; there are plenty of principals in the profession, you know, and what is not worth the while of one, may be worth the while of another; that's my recommendation to you, speaking as a subordinate. Don't try on useless measures. Why should you? Now, who's next?"
You know, in the first place, that after I left college, my father, seeing me indisposed for the Church, to which he had always destined me in his own heart, and for which, indeed, he had gone out of his way to maintain me at the University, gave me the choice of his own business as a surveyor and land-agent, or of entering into the mercantile profession.
Armed with the necessary document the next step was to engage "bushmen," or woodcutters by profession, who felled and cut the timber into the proper lengths, and stacked it neatly in a clearing, where it could get dry and seasoned.
'Let me settle this point at once by telling you, madam, that the gentleman you have accused is an officer high in his profession, and sent here to protect the public and look after criminals. He had but just arrived, and it was because of this that he was without his officer's badge, which would at once have put those men to rout had it been worn and displayed to them.
"It is very kind of you to give me good words, miss," she said; "but if I might have one for the boy you could say what you liked to me." Lydia considered far before she replied. At last she said, "I am sorry I spoke harshly to him, since, driven as he was by circumstances, I cannot see how he could have acted otherwise than he did. And I overlooked the economic conditions of his profession.
I had just concluded my repast when my landlord presented himself with the travellers' book, in which he wanted to register my name. "Casanova." "Your profession, if you please, sir?" "Officer." "In which service?" "None." "Your native place?" "Venice." "Where do you come from?" "That is no business of yours."
It was whispered, indeed, in Prague, that since the accession of the present emperor, the clergy have, in this respect, made large strides upwards; and it is very certain that Jesuitism is not what it was some years ago, a profession which men esteemed it prudent to conceal.
The profession of the slave-trader, unless it be that of his contemporary, the pirate preying under his black flag, is the one which holds you with the most grewsome and fascinating interest.
Superior in talent, in knowledge of his profession, in courage, and, moreover, in physical strength which in him was almost herculean unfortunately he was also superior to all in villainy, in cruelty, and contempt of all injunctions, moral and Divine. What had been the early life of this person was but imperfectly known.
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