In making his decision, Franklin was actuated precisely as are many young men who question themselves regarding their career.

He saw the average results of the lives of others in a given calling, and conceived, without consulting in most jealous scrutiny his own natural fitnesses and preferences, that he might well succeed in that calling because he saw others so succeeding.

Already there were two dozen lawyers in Bloomsbury, and it was to be questioned whether they all did so well as had Judge Bradley in the hog-stealing epoch of the local history.

Yet it was necessary for him to take up something by way of occupation, and it resolved itself somewhat into a matter of cancellation.

For the profession of medicine he had a horror, grounded upon scenes of contract surgery upon the fields of battle.