Tae thing which of all others George Eliot most lamented was the enormous and constant waste of human labour which she saw going on in the world, Mon and women were spending their lives in profitless work and neglecting that of which they were capable, and from diligence in which good resulta to themselves and the world would have come, It is the old story of mankind pursuing the shadow while the reality was close by where they started from. Lord Beaconsfield in one of his addresses to the students of Glasgow University urged on the young mon the vital necessity of finding out what career would best suit their powers before making an actual start in life. It is in many cases from neglect of this wise counsel of the statesman that so much work is thrown away, and so many lives rendered all but useless, if not entirely so, Possibly the increase of knowledge in the world generally may abate the evil that the novelist lament
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