INTRODUCTION 



of the anxiety and the labor that have gone 

 to their production. 



The world is inhabited by bread winners 

 toiling for a home and for food. It may 

 be that the home is but a hovel and the 

 food only the portion necessary to sustain 

 life. Or the "home" may be town and 

 country house, with villa by the sea and 

 mountain camp. Yet the toiler is back of 

 it all, working with head or with hands; 

 and with all, the object is still the same, 

 with a difference only in degree. 



Idlers in the market place are compara- 

 tively few and are but ciphers in the world. 

 The man whose fortune is inherited, who 

 accepts his wealth as a trust, and feels that 

 his money and his position bring obligation, 

 to whose generosity and continued care we 

 owe hospitals, trade schools, universities and 

 other institutions, has really less freedom 

 from care and less time absolutely his own 

 than the craftsmen and laborers, whose 

 daily toil alone provides their daily needs. 

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