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A man may be a very good reasoner who has not learned "to name his tools,"
which is all that is taught by the logic of Aristotle.

How evidently is the following invested with all the vivid colouring of
actual observation:--

"It can hardly be necessary, after all that has been said upon the
subject of special pleading, both in this chapter and in preceding
parts of the work, to warn the youth who rashly rushes to the bar
without a competent knowledge of pleading, of the folly of which he
is guilty, and the danger to which he is exposing himself. To a young
counsel ignorant of pleading, a brief will be little else than a sort
of Chinese puzzle. He must either give up in despair all attempts at
mastering its contents, or hurry in ridiculous agitation from friend
to friend, making vain efforts to 'cram' himself for some occasion of
solitary display, afforded him by the zealous indiscretion of a
friendly solicitor. Feverish with anxiety, wretched under the
apprehension of public failure, and the consciousness of
incompetence, after trembling in court lest he should be called upon
to show himself, he returns to chambers, to curse his folly--to make,
when too late, exertions to retrieve his false position, or abandon
it for ever, with all the cloud-picturings of a vain and puerile
ambition."

There is a general reluctance to believe in the union of literary talents
and business-like qualities of mind. They are thought incompatible. A
lover of literature is held to have little chance of success. A prejudice
so general must have some foundation; but the incompatibility, in whatever
degree it exists, lies, we are persuaded, not in the several mental
qualities--not in the intellectual apparatus fitted for the two careers of
literature and a profession--but in the different dispositions, in the
diversity of tastes, which the two pursuits engender. The literary man
fails in no faculty that profession calls for, but he may contract a
strong repugnance for the species of activity it demands.

In literature thought is indulged and solicited for its own sake; it
excites or it amuses; it may be invested with the deepest and most
stirring interests of religion and philosophy, or it may be the very
rainbow of the mind, having no life but only in and for its beauty. In
professional vocations the intellectual effort is subordinated to a
definite and