In: Lewis Campbell and William Garnett, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell with Selections from His Correspondence and Occasional Writings, Report on Tait's Lecture on Force (p. 647)
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.
