CHAPTER II.

OF THE INDUCEMENTS TO INDIVIDUALS TO CULTIVATE SCIENCE.

Interest or inclination form the primary and ruling motives in
this matter: and both these exert greater or less proportionate
influence in each of the respective cases to be examined.


SECTION 1.

PROFESSIONAL IMPULSES.

A large portion of those who are impelled by ambition or
necessity to advance themselves in the world, make choice of some
profession in which they imagine their talents likely to be
rewarded with success; and there are peculiar advantages
resulting to each from this classification of society into
professions. The ESPRIT DE CORPS frequently overpowers the
jealousy which exists between individuals, and pushes on to
advantageous situations some of the more fortunate of the
profession; whilst, on the other hand, any injury or insult
offered to the weakest, is redressed or resented by the whole
body. There are other advantages which are perhaps of more
importance to the public. The numbers which compose the learned
professions in England are so considerable, that a kind of public
opinion is generated amongst them, which powerfully tends to
repress conduct that is injurious either to the profession or to