Concomitantly with these bodily services and tasks, the mental education of the children goes on till boyhood ceases.

It is the general custom, then, to pass though a course of instruction at the College of Sages, in which, besides more general studies, the pupil receives special lessons in such vocation or direction of intellect as he himself selects.

Some, however, prefer to pass this period of probation in travel, or to emigrate, or to settle down at once into rural or commercial pursuits.

No force is put upon individual inclination..