THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



grinders' union in the cutlery works or to a 

 royal family. Why is it so often right that a 

 rich college, for example, should, in its money- 

 chest, feel poor? Because it could so easily 

 supply more spiritual wants if it had more 

 money. 



Not low wages will ever make men harmless, 

 nor high wages make them happy, nor low nor 

 high save them from a spirit of pauperism or of 

 malignant envy; but having wages bigger than 

 their bodily wants, and having spiritual wants 

 numerous and elastic enough to use up the sur- 

 plus — spiritual wants, that know both how to 

 suffer need and how to abound, and to do either 

 without backsliding toward savagery. Whoever 

 would help this state of things on, let him seek 

 at the same time to increase the home's wage- 

 earning power and its spiritual powers to put 

 to fine use the wages earned: to augment the 

 love of beauty in nature and in art, the love of 

 truth and knowledge, the love of achievement 

 and of service, the love of God and of human 

 society, the ambition to put more into the world 

 than we get out of it. Wages will never be too 



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