We French, we English, never lost our civil war, endure it still, a bloodless civil bore; no wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted. It's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted.
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.
