he was doing some work now and then, we might prohibit alien
occupations, but for my own part I do not think even that is necessary.
Most authors so sustained will write, and all will have written. We are
presupposing, be it remembered, the stimulus of honours and criticism
and of further honours and further emoluments.

Finally, in making schemes for the endowment of original mental
activity, we must not ignore the possibility of a perversion that has
already played its part in the histories of painting and music, and
that is the speculative financing of promising candidates for these
endowments. If we are going to make research, criticism, and creation
"worth while" we must see to it that in reality we are not simply
making it worth while for Solomons and Moses to "spot" the early
promise, to stimulate its modesty, to help it to its position, and to
draw the major profits of the enterprise. The struggling young man of
exceptional gifts who is using his brains not to make his position but
to do his destined work, is by that at a great disadvantage in dealing
with the business man, and it is to the interest of the community that
he should be protected from his own inexperience and his own self-
distrust. The average Whitechapel Jew could cheat a Shakespeare into
the workhouse in no time, and our idea is rather to make the world easy
for Shakespeares than to hand it over to the rat activities of the
"smart" business man.

Freedom of Contract is an idea no one outside a debating society dreams
of realizing in the state. We protect tenants from landlords in all
sorts of ways, our law overrides all sorts of bargains, and in the
important case of marriage we put almost all the conditions outside
bargaining and speculative methods altogether by insisting upon one
universal contract or none. We protect women who are physically and