What Career? Ten Papers on the Choice of a Vocation and the Use of Time (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from What Career?: Ten Papers on the Choice of a Vocation and the Use of Time Of the prefect Of a French department or the lord-lieutenant Of an English county. For such reasons, it becomes impossible to trans fer from the older systems Of government to our systems even the commonplaces, or what are called the axioms, Of their political and social economy. And the attempt to make such transfer, on the part Of half-trained writers, confuses and in the end embarrasses our administration Of our own affairs. It is indeed the origin Of half that pessimism which tells us in each hour that we are going to perdition. A prominent English writer said to me once: Of course you know that there never was any thing we call a nation which extended from one ocean to another I said: I know it very well; but our exact business is to Show that what we call a nation can extend from one ocean to the other. But I had to add, that what we call a nation is something world-wide apart from what you call a nation, and that is the reason why you never understand us. I might have added, I suppose, why we never understand you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.