Beaten paths; or, Lessons in living by Keays Charles Henry

Author:Keays, Charles Henry. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Conduct of life
Publisher: Chicago, Radar, Thomson & co
Published: 1890-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

This world is a working world. For so many generations have the good things of life been given as the reward of toil, that wherever we look to-day, we find thousands of our fellow beings resisting their native indolence and working away in the confident expectation of receiving some reward. On hill and valley, on land and sea, on the surface of the earth and in its dark and secret mines, men are toiling. The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the houses we dwell in, the fuel we burn, the books we read, the pictures and poems that lift us into ideal frames of mind, are all the result of toil.

A single dress represents the labor of hundreds and possibly of thousands of individuals in the different quarters of the globe: cotton from Egypt, wool from Australia, flax from Ireland, silk from China, dyes from the tropics—work of sun and soil, work of hand and brain, work of spindle and needle, work of factory and warehouse and market, all going into this simple dress! When you think of the great armies of workmen that gather and prepare the raw materials, of the great army of common carriers that bring these raw materials together, of the millions employed in manufacturing and the further millions who distribute the manufactured products, you get an idea of the way in which the world hangs together. No man liveth unto himself; we are all members one of another. Society is organized on a working basis.

We might as well expect the rivers to run upward as expect the blessings of life to come to us without toil If we want good houses, we must work to build them.

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