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of view as to what a well-developed, well- 

 rounded life requires it may safely be said 

 that a very large percentage of the business 

 of the world is deleterious to its welfare, 

 and detrimental to the progress of the race ; 

 that those engaged in such business, which 

 may be their sole, or only a part of their 

 occupation, are stumbling-blocks in the 

 upward march. It is hardly necessary to 

 particularize ; in some directions each will 

 involuntarily draw a line under certain 

 familiar occupations. But leaving aside 

 the obvious instances, it is sufficient to 

 touch lightly only one or two spots, to show 

 what I mean. I suppose that there are very 

 few thoughtful, intelligent men even in the 

 journalistic fraternity itself, who would not 

 agree that it would be better that a vast 

 proportion of all the work done in connec 

 tion with the newspaper press, by editors, 

 reporters, telegraph operators, compositors, 

 printers devils, distributors, in short, by all 

 hands, should be left undone ; that if such 

 were the case the world would be richer, 

 wiser, and saner than it is to-day. So like 

 wise with the general publishing business, 

 though possibly, probably, not to so large a 

 degree. The same may be said, mutatis 

 mutandis, of many other occupations. Yet 



