As quoted in: Dialogue in the philosophy of education (Merrill, 1972), p. 91. Sometimes attributed to Mark Twain in the form: "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals."
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.
