ttention, and in which the pecuniary reward
comes as an incident rather than as the conscious and direct result of
a given effort.

The greatest pleasure in work is that which comes from the trained and
regulated exercise of the faculty of imagination. In the conduct of
every law case this faculty has abundant opportunity, as it also has in
the efforts of the physician to aid nature in the restoration of health
and vigor in the individual, or in the sanitary protection of the
community. I hope I have made clear this point: that pecuniary success,
even in large measure, in the work of a professional man, may be
entirely compatible with disinterested devotion to a kind of work that
makes for the public weal, while it is also worthy of pursuit for its
own sake, and brings content and even happiness in the doing. And it is
clear enough, in the case of a professional man, that he is false to
his profession and to his plain obligations if he shows himself to be
ruled by the anti-social spirit; that is to say, if he considers
himself absolved from any duties towards the community about him;
thinks that the practice of his profession is a private affair for his
own profit and advantage, and holds that he has done his whole duty
when he has escaped liability for malpractice or disbarment.

But the three oldest and best recognized professions no longer stand
alone, in the estimation of our higher educational authorities and of
the intelligent public. In a democracy like ours, with a constantly
advancing conception of what is involved in education for citizenship
and for participation in every individual function of the social and
economic life, the work of the teacher comes to be recognized as
professional in the highest sense. Teaching, indeed, seems destined in
the near future to become the very foremost of all the professions.
This recognition will come when the idea takes full possession of the
public mind that the chief task of each generation is to train the next
one, and to transmit such stores of knowledge and useful experience as
it has received from its predecessors or has evolved for itself.

It is obvious enough that the work of the teacher gives room for the
play of the loftiest ideals, and that its functions are essentially
public and disinterested. But there are other callings, such as those
of the architect and engineer, which have also come to be spoken of as
professional in their nature. Their kinship to the o