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senses, the judgment, the imagination, the memory, the power of 

 combining and discriminating, all improve by judicious exercise. A 

 rich store of useful ideas results from intellectual activity, as certainly 

 as affluence follows skillful industry. Comprehension of mind con- 

 nected with disciplined powers of generalization, enables us to take 

 the best advantage of the complicated events of life. It spreads 

 out existence over previous ages, and by careful discrimination and 

 correct analysis, we may cull from the immense wealth of the past 

 to enrich the present, and to store the future with the treasured 

 opulence of all generations. 



Intellectual labor leads to useful discoveries. It has been observed 

 to the credit of agricultural industry, that the king is served by 

 the field. It is equally true that the artist, manufacturer and mer- 

 chant are served by the philosopher. Science gives birth to art. 

 The acting members of the community have been compared to the 

 hands ; the thinking and inquisitive, to the head by which the hands 

 are unconsciously governed ; and neither can say to the other I have 

 no need of thee. AVith more propriety, however, may it be asserted 

 that the active and thinking members are joint membeis of the same 

 body, and should be allowed their due exercise, and be well devel- 

 oped to practical uses, in each individual, in order to perfect man- 

 hood and womanhood, and to the elevation and perfection of human 

 society, "It is the mind that makes the body rich;" the intellect 

 that dignifies, and gives practicality and efficiency to physical effort ; 

 and very pertinently may be quoted the words of Solomon, whose 

 precepts arc rich in practical directions adapted to ennoble labor : 

 " Lay fast hold of instruction ; keep her, for she is thy life." 



Mental and physical labor are intimately co-related and must 

 co-exist in every well developed and symmetrical human being. 



Nature, throughout her departments, is emminently suggestive of 

 the necessity of industry. All her utterances are of persevering, 

 useful activity. She is no idler. She never stagnates; never loiters 

 on her way. In simplicity and purity, she fulfills her destiny. Ut- 

 tering no voices of fear or doubt, musical with praise, she discharges 

 her present, active duties in passive obedience to the Infinite behest. 

 Her agencies never slumber nor sleep ; her forces never rest. 



What does all thi;i useful activity in all the works of nature mean ? 

 * Does it not utter the voice of rebuke and condemnation to the idler ? 



