It is intended to stop all debate, like the previous question in the General Court.

Only it doesn't; simply because "that" does not usually tell the whole, nor one half of the whole story.
-- It is an odd idea, that almost all our people have had a professional education.

To become a doctor a man must study some three years and hear a thousand lectures, more or less.

Just how much study it takes to make a lawyer I cannot say, but probably not more than this.

Now most decent people hear one hundred lectures or sermons (discourses) on theology every year,--and this, twenty, thirty, fifty years together.