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Show United States Ahead of England in Offering Opportunity to Young Men By LORD ROBERT CECIL, English Statesman. America offers better opportunities than England to the poor youn). man. We have solved the problem of liberty as well as you, but you have solved the problem of equality better than. we have. If you are well-to-do in England and can afford to wait, practically practical-ly all careers are open to you If you are poor, it is a different story, of course. I don't think we have solved in England the question of "open careers" or opportunities for young men as well as you have in the United Unit-ed States. Unlike you, we are a crowded country. Apart from special circumstances, I am convinced that in the end a man generally does what he desires to do and 1 believe that is more true in the United States than in England. If with sufficient strength he desires to do a special thing, he will finally accomplish it. Broadly speaking, there are two objects of desire: To be something, to do something. If you want to be something, for example, a rich man, or President of the United States, or judge of the Supreme court, well, that's one form of life. But if you want to do something, then you must be on your guard as far as you can against caring what you are. Yoo must not bother about what will happen to you. If you would struggle to be things, then you must abandon hope of doing things. |