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HIS LIFE AND WORK 



soft, loose earth. The sower is no heavy-footed 

 serf, scattering his grain in handfuls upon the 

 surface of the soil, where the birds of the air may 

 devour it. He, too, rides upon a machine with 

 steel fingers that plant the living seed securely 

 in the living earth. And when, at the call of the 

 sun and the rain, the black field becomes green 

 and ripens from green to gold, its yellow fruitage 

 is swept down and into barns, not by a horde of 

 stooping laborers, but by the Grand March of 

 the Harvesters, the drivers of painted chariots, 

 who ride against the grain and leave it behind 

 them in bound sheaves. 



Henceforth civilization may be based upon 

 higher motives than the Search for Food. The 

 struggle for existence may become the struggle 

 of the nobler nature for its full development. 

 The gentle need not be eliminated by the strong. 

 Instead of contending with one another in an 

 unbrotherly competition, men may move up- 

 ward to the higher activities of social self-preser- 

 vation and organized self-help. By mastering 

 the problem of the bread, they have opened up 

 such opportunities for education, for travel, for 



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