ABSTRACT
The Professions were occupations as nearly as possible related to that ideal. Professions are likely to be hereditary in the United States than in Great Britain, and, apart from medicine and, in the East and Middle West, the law; entrance into them is both cheaper and easier. The whole apparatus which makes up the professional man's physical environment resembles that of the business man in the United States in a degree that is just beginning to be known in Great Britain. New units of legal study have appeared, such as family law and business law; and there has been an expansion from the study of the case itself into wider social material which bears upon its meaning. The importance of such studies is, indeed, recognized; and a series of notable accounts of the doctor, the engineer, the nurse, and the social worker have been published by one of the great American foundations.
