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varied in its character. Whatever right a poor 

 earthenware pot may imagine it has to say to the 

 potter, Why hast thou made me thus ? it cannot surely 

 entertain the idea that it has a right to say to its 

 purchaser, Why have you not valued me at the same 

 price which you paid for that costly vase, for which 

 you paid a thousand times the sum you paid for me, 

 though it was fashioned by the same potter as myself ? 

 Yet many blame the arrangements of society and the 

 principles which govern the labour market for the 

 small account in which they are held, and the small 

 value that is placed upon their labour. Men differ ; 

 and those who, by reason of their superior differ- 

 entiations, gain the higher posts and play the foremost 

 parts in human society, differ from their fellows, not 

 for their own advantage merely, but for the advantage 

 of the common weal ; for they are those who set on foot 

 enterprises that promote the general well-being of a 

 community, or who extend the businesses with which 

 they are connected, and so furnish the means of living 

 to a larger number of persons. It is througli their 

 energies and intelligence that the standard of comfort 

 of the whole community is raised. They are the 

 pioneers of an advancing civilisation. If the working 

 man who earns a daily wage that enables him 

 to maintain his family in comfort regards their 

 luxury and pride of life with an eye jaundiced with 

 envy and rancour, he shows his ignorance of the 

 material blessings which the objects of his spleen 

 have brought to his door and into his dwelling. 



