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sense a farm-servant, works no harder than his employer ; 

 he does not have the care and perplexity on his mind that 

 the owner does ; fares equally with the family, and at the 

 &quot;expiration of the year has more surplus cash to put at in 

 terest than the man who has employed him. &quot;What has 

 been done by some men can be done over again by others. 

 If our fathers commenced in this small and patient way, 

 and became men of wealth, of character, and of influence 

 and standing in society, so can our young men of the present 

 day, and in many less years than it took them to gain their 

 position. 



&quot; The reader of modern history will recollect that when 

 the first Napoleon appeared at the head of the French army 

 in Italy, then but 27 years old, that he astonished the old 

 veteran generals of Europe by his new military tactics. 

 His rapid movements, his furious onsets, they were not pre 

 pared to expect, and much less to resist. AYhere did this 

 prodigy learn this new art of war ? When in captivity on 

 the desolate rock of St. Helena he let out the secret. He 

 had studied closely the history of Alexander the Great. It 

 is said that he always carrie^ about with him the life of 

 this great Grecian conqueror. He knew that the world as 

 it was in that ancient day, never could have been conquered 

 only by the rapid and determined means brought to bear on 

 the enemies of Greece ; and he reasoned with himself, and 

 correctly, too, that what man had done, man could do again ; 

 and firmly relying on this principle, he put the same means 

 in force, varying as the means of warfare had varied, but 

 keeping steadily in view the rapid blows and the determined 

 energy and zeal that gave the Grecian universal empire. To 

 a very great extent he did over again the work of Alexander, 

 and caused every throne in Europe to tremble, though all 

 combined, finally overthrew him. 



&quot; This is a far-fetched analogy, but it is none the less true. 

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