ABSTRACT
The second of the five " circumstances" is open to even more serious objection. Every man may be free to choose his occupation and change it as often as he thinks proper, but the choice of occupation is commonly made before manhood is reached, and the expense of training for it is seldom borne by the worker himself. The fact that somebody else has borne certain expenses in order to fit him for his work is no disadvantage to him, and cannot counterbalance the advantage to him of higher remuneration. The difficulty is at most only partially surmounted by the fiction involved in treating parents and children as one, so that a disadvantage to his parents may be reckoned as counterbalancing an advantage to the worker himself. More and more of the expense of education is met from other than parental resourcesfrom endowments, State and local taxation.
