THE NOBILITY OF LABOR.
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SO material do deem this policy-th,
true nobility of labor, mean-that W oult
dwell on it moment longer, and in larg
er view. Why, then, in the great scale o.
things, ls labor ordained for us, Easily
had it SO pleased the Great Ordainer, might
it have been dispensed with. The world
itself might have been mighty machine
ry, for producing all that man wants.


The motion Of the globe on its axis nigh,
have been going forward without mans
aid, houses might have risen like an exha.
lation,


"With the proud sword


OF dulcet symphonies and voices sweet


Built like temple )"


gorgeous furniture might have been placed
in them, and soft coucbes and luxuriant
banquets spread, by hands unseen /; and
man, clad in fabrics of natures weaving,
rather than imperial purple, might have
been sent to disport himself in those Elys-
ian palaces, "Fair scene !" imagine your
are saying: "Fortunate for us had the scene
been ordained for human life ~ But where
then, tell me, had been human energy, per-



severance, patience, virtue, heroism


Cut off labor with one blow from the
world, and mankind had sunk to crowd
Of Asiatic voluptuaries. No, it had not
been fortunate. Better that the earth be
given TO man as dark mass, whereupon to
labor. Better that the rude and unsighlly
materials be provided in the orebed and the
forest, for him to fashion, to splendor and
beauty. Better, say; not because Of that
splendor and beauty, but because the act of
creating them is better than the things
themselves; because exertion is nobler
than enjoyment; because the aborer is
greater and more worthy Of honor than the
idler


call upon those whom address, to
stand up for the nobility Of labor, II is
Heavens great ordinance for human i'm
provement Let not the great ordinance be
broken down.


What do say 1t is broken down, and
it has been broken down for ages. Let it
then be rebuilt up again-here, if any
where, on the shores of new world, of a
new civilization, But how, it may be
asked, is it broken Do not men toll, it
may be said 7 They do indeed toll, but
they too generally do it because they must.


Many submit to it as, in some sort, de-
grading necessity and they desire nothing
so much on earth as escape from it, They
fulfil the great law Of labor in the letter,
but break it in spirit. To some field Of
labor, mental or manual, every idler should
hasten as chosen, covered field of inn
provemsnt


But SO he is not lmpelled to do under
our imperfect civilization. On the con-
trary he sits down, folds HE hands, and
blesses himself in idleness This way oi
thinking IS the heritage of the absurd and
unjust feudal system, under which serfs la
bored aud gentlemen spent their lives in
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