When we say a thing or an event is real, never mind how suspect it sounds, we honour it. But when a thing is made up—regardless of how true and just it seems—we turn up our noses.
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
