Man’s curse is to labor.  This labor must of necessity be divided to subserve the wants of society—­and common sense would teach that each should be educated as best to enable him to perform that labor which may fall to his lot in life.  But who shall determine this lot?  Every day’s experience teaches the observant and thinking man that no one individual is uselessly born.  To deny this proposition would be to call in question the wisdom and goodness of the Creator.  Every one possesses proclivities for some one avocation, and should be educated for its pursuit.  This is manifested in very early life; in some much more palpably than in others.  This is always the case when the aptitude is decisive.  In such cases this idiosyncrasy will triumph over every adverse circumstance, educational or otherwise; but in the less palpable, it will not; and the design of nature may, and indeed constantly is, disappointed, and improper education and improper pursuits given.  In these pursuits or callings, the person thus improperly placed there never succeeds as he would had his bent or mental inclination been observed, and his education directed to it, and he given to its pursuit.  Such persons labor through life painfully; they have no taste or inclination for the profession, business, or trade in which they are engaged; its pursuit is an irksome, thankless labor; while he who has fallen into nature’s design, and is working where his inclinations lead, labors happily, because he labors naturally.  These inclinations the parent or guardian should observe; and when manifested, should direct the education for the calling nature has designed.  Idiosyncrasies are transmissible or inherited.  In old and populous communities, where every pursuit or profession is full, the father generally teaches his own to his son or sons.  Where this has extended through three or four generations, the proclivity is generally strongly marked, and in very early childhood made manifest.  Thus, in the third or fourth generation, where all have been blacksmiths, the child will be born with the muscles of the right arm more developed than those of the left, and the first plaything he demands is a hammer.  So, where a family have been traders, will the offspring naturally discover an aptness for bargaining and commerce.  This is illustrated in the instincts of the Jews, a people of extraordinary brain and wonderful tenacity of purpose.  Five thousand years since, a small fragment of the Semitic race, residing in Mesopotamia between the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris, consisting of two families, came into the land of Canaan, in Asia Minor; from them have descended the people known as Jews.  The country over which they spread, and which is known as Judea, is not more than four hundred miles long by two hundred and fifty in breadth, situated between two populous and powerful empires, the Assyrian and Egyptian, who, waging war too frequently, made the land of Judea their battle-field, and its people