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It has been considered as of so much importance that a proper

number of young people should be educated for certain

professions, that sometimes the public, and sometimes the piety

of private founders, have established many pensions,

scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries, etc. for this purpose,

which draw many more people into those trades than could

otherwise pretend to follow them. In all Christian countries, I

believe, the education of the greater part of churchmen is paid

for in this manner. Very few of them are educated altogether at

their own expense. The long, tedious, and expensive education,

therefore, of those who are, will not always procure them a

suitable reward, the church being crowded with people, who, in

order to get employment, are willing to accept of a much smaller

recompence than what such an education would otherwise have

entitled them to; and in this manner the competition of the poor

takes away the reward of the rich.