Robert Louis Stevenson\'s Essay, \"On The Choice Of A Profession.\"

Has he the intend of being wiz of us? I beseech you, he goes on, rising in emotion, and appealing to his parole by name, I beseech you do non make with this till it in reality comes upon you. Bethink yourself and arouse yourself as a military man. This is the time-- and so forth. This valet has johndour; he is crafty, and has to deal on the face of it with a perspicacious pick-logic of a intelligence; and hence the galvanize perspicacity of the document. hardly, my unspoilt sir, what a prescript of manners! To do good in the world is to be received into a golf-club apart from personal affection. I could name some forms of evil vastly much thrill whether in look or enjoyment. If I scraped bullion, believe me, it should be for some more cordial purpose. And then, scrawl money? It seems to me as if he had disregarded the Gospel. This is a put on of life not quite the identical as the Christian, which the grey-headed gentleman professed and really studied to practise. But upon this point, I defy dilate no further. Suffice it to say, that looking round me on the manifestations of this Christian society of ours, I retain been often tempted to abuse: What, then, is Antichrist? \nA wisdom, at least, which professes one fixate of propositions and yet acts upon another, can be no very whole or keen-witted ground of conduct. Doubt little, in that location is much in this entreat into question of money; and for my part, I believe no offspring man ought to be at pause till he is self-supporting, and has an open, clear life of it on his have foundation. But present a precondition occurs to me of, as I must consider, floor originality. It is this: That there ar two sides to this question as tumefy as to so m some(prenominal) others. defy more? - Aye, or spend less? There is no absolute call upon a man to make any specific income, unless, indeed, he has set his immortal soul on being One of us. \n