It in easy to foresee the result of this artificial encouragement. All the professions will be overstocked; there will be cutthroat competition and starvation salaries. Life the 20th Century is going to be a purgatory for the man in a black coat. so already France, Germany, and other Continental countries. There will be no happy home life for most of them, but only grinding poverty, constant anxiety, and an old age not far removed from destitution. It is not that the age of privilege has come to an end, There will be a privileged class—organized La-dour, the members of Trade Unions. It is' they who will enjoy protection from competition; for them the State will unloose its purse-strings; it is their sons who will find the means of livelihood secured to them. The professions will go to the wall.
But our young people have no fear and no anxiety, They are not preparing themselves for a grim struggle, They are not strenuous; they are not ambitious. They have renounced the masterful seductions of the world, the flesh, and the devil; but they want to have a mildly good time, loafing, dancing, play-going, and philandering. Many, of them are likely to end like the person of whom Charles Lamb said that he was intended for a tailor but lacked spirit.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.