I'iirt II: The Foreman 

 WORKMANSHIP AND ORIGINALITY 



Section I 



Some Aspects of Labor 



Value of Labor. Iv ig which has ever 



become useful to mankind has been made useful 

 as the result of labor. Mental labor was required 

 in the observation of the thing, in the discovery of 

 the reasons for it, and in working out ways of 

 using or improving it; while physical labor was 

 brought into play in finding it, in preparing it for 

 use, and in improving it. From the labor of hunt- 

 ing or fishing, scraping and drying the hides, mak- 

 ing stone weapons and building a fire, to the labor 

 of manufacturing an automobile or a piece of 

 cloth, everything has required labor before it be- 

 came of any service; and always there was, first, 

 mental labor and, second, physical labor. 



The only wealth which we possess A hich 



results from a surplus of labor. The weapon 

 maker of the tribe in the old days, whose weapons 

 ucre worth one pig or one measure of corn and 

 who made more weapons than the tribe needed, 

 became wealthy in comparison with others, be- 

 cause each weapon was worth a certain amount of 

 meat or corn or hides. The man who by indu 

 was able to grow more pigs than another man, by 

 caring for them and raising them to maturity, was 



