chambers, who can cite cases by the hour, and
argue a demurrer till the Judges are " in wandering
mazes lost," and who, in his turn, would be
extremely wrath were he told that, although so
learned a Lawyer, he cannot hope to be great as an
Advocate. Yet would no effort of theirs make it
othenvise. Nature forbids. The two callings
demand not merely different, but opposite, faculties,
which cannot co-exist in the same mind.
In truth, the practical sagacity of our clients has
already decided otherwise, and we must bow to the
decision, even if we question its righteousness.
They who have briefs to bestow do not look for the
combination in one mind of conflicting qualifica-
tions. They do not expect to retain with one fee
the rapidity of thought, the promptitude of decision,
the large knowledge of the world required in the
Advocate, and the slow judgment, patient study of
the books, and of the cases, and of the statutes
needed for the getting up of the law of their case.
The Attorney who consults the real interests of his
chent seeks first a skilful, intelligent and eloquent
Advocate, to conduct his cause and deal with its
facts, and then he consorts with him a junior, whom
Nature and hard chamber study have qualified to
work up the law ; and thus, each supplying what
the other wants, he finds his cause conducted in
the most perfect manner.
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II.
CAPACITIES.
The duties of an Advocate demand a larger
range of intelligence, a combination of a greater
number of qualifications, than do those of any-
other branch of oratory.
