To the editors:
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Maturity normally brings with it the realization that the evils which beset the world are complicated, cannot be solved by simple nostrums or philosophical formulas, and that the best most of us can do in this life to accomplish humanitarian goals is by working on little pieces, one at a time . . . mostly by doing one’s job as well as one can. Maturity means that one realizes the practical limits of human capacity. Maturity also means recognizing that doing good is most often not romantic or glorious, that the rewards are modest, that whatever worldly gain one makes in one’s profession, it is the satisfaction of having done something well which is one’s greatest reward.
True, many attorneys (like many doctors, many engineers) are unhappy, even more unhappy than they once were. The causes of what is probably a greater measure of discontent than existed in the past are complex, and have in part to do with the changing nature of our society and its effect upon the legal profession. It is not true, however, that the unhappiness stems from discontent with law itself or the legal profession as such.
Jack Joseph
