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the man who does not work does not deserve to eat, and where he who 

 works gains food and clothing and every comfort in abundance — in such 

 a coimtry, labor must be honored more than in all othei-s, and the labor- 

 er must stand up with a conscious dignity of a benignant agent, whom 

 Divine Providence has appointed to make the wilderness and the solita- 

 tary place to rejoice, and the desert to bud and blossom as the rose. 

 Our country can tolerate no splendid drones. If they come into exis- 

 tence, if not violently expelled by the busy population around, they 

 must wither into insignificance and die out, by the force of a public sen- 

 timent more potent than the law of Kings, and retributive as a law of 

 Heaven itself. 



This all commanding and honored industry is now in its full career. 

 But whatever may be the wondere which it has already wrought, we 

 have reason to believe that greater wondere are yet to come. It is in 

 full career, but it is only at the beginning of its career. The forests 

 have disappeared and are disappearing; villages and cities are every- 

 where springing up; all the forms of productive art are everywhere 

 multiplying; commerce is enlarging and spreading to and fro upon the 

 wings of the wind ; new methods are discovered, and new implements 

 and machinery invented ; the capacities of the world are continually be- 

 coming better known, and labor is conducted more and more in accor- 

 dance with the laws of Nature and Providence ; that which stands upon 

 the surface of the eartli, and the soil of the earth, are becoming the ob- 

 jects of a more perfect knowledge ; and the deep bosom of the earth is 

 still revealing new treasures of wealth. To what are we tending — to 

 what are we tending ! It is reserved to the light of future centuries to 

 reveal the full glories of industry — to show how work has realized the 

 destinies of man upon the earth. Then these wide spread regions will 

 open to view, improvements to which we are now giving only the first 

 touch, and wealth and beauty shall abound of which we now can only 

 feebly conjecture or dimly dream. 



But that these great results may be realized, or, at least, that we may 

 contribute our part in bringing them about, it is necessary that we 

 should be penetrated by right sentiments, and should act upon right 

 principles. And if I were to expound these, I would begin with the 

 sentiment and principle of our mutual dependence. And first, the 

 mutual dependence of all the forms of industry. There is no opposi- 



