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lect is only rendered palpable to the material world, by its propulsion of 

 working organs. Labor is important as the natural and necessary means 

 to a perfect organization. Beyond a healthy natural constitution, no- 

 thing else is requisite. Give the body sufficient activity — employ the 

 head and heart in exercises worthy of a God-given existence, and the 

 proper development will follow. Imagine such a model being — a na- 

 ture's nobleman — thus trained, developed, matured — he stands erect, as 

 if in the consciousness of strength and rectitude — there is such a grace, 

 dignity and ease in his movements, that you forget the ordinary obsta- 

 cles that hinder and mar the beauty of mechanical motion. You take 

 his cordial hand, and are impressed that he lives, but that his pulse 

 throbs with no unnatural vehemence — only with genuine animation; 

 that no counterfeit pleasure lights up that cheerful countenance, but that 

 there is the glow of habitual gladness, the smile of health and content- 

 ment. Labor gives this strength and grace of body as well as this 

 cheerfulness and vigor of mind. Thus is acquired the true dignity of 

 manhood. These are the legitimate fruits of labor; the means of at- 

 taining to rational life. And however averse a man may be to this 

 mode of developing and employing his mental and physical energies, 

 and however wanting ho may be in a proper appreciation of the pleas- 

 ure to be enjoyed in the' maturity of his faculties, they will not be idle. 

 Their possessor may be efleminate, and rendered so by meager exercise. 

 Yet he can never withdraw entirely from the arena of active life — and 

 hold his sleepless powers wholly in check. We might as well attempt 

 to becalm a ship at mid-ocean, when tossed by the fury of the most 

 fearful tempest, as to still to perfect quiescence the tumult of human 

 desires; or to coerce the fertile mind to perfect repose and inactivity. 

 These energies may be governed and directed, but not suspended. The 

 most severe labor would be to cease to labor. Attempt to bring the 

 mind and body to complete rest, even by suspending the voluntary 

 functions; to stop all action, all thought; impossible! Hence how ob- 

 viously adapted to efiect the great purposes of life, to fulfill the Adamic 

 allotment to labor, is man's mental and physical constitution. Since, 

 then, he must labor, (and this is his only means of attaining to a rational 

 existence, and of securing the highest capacity for enjoyment,) it only 

 remains for him to choose that kind which is best suited to his case — 



