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perjured themselves and robbed and ruined their fellows un- 

 der forms of law whereby they are saved from the arrest, trial 

 and imprisonment which they so justly deserve, the founda- 

 tions of God stand sure, and when truth is lost and honor dies 

 the man is dead. The young doctor must have bread and is 

 often tempted to the practice of a quackery he despises, and 

 which at the beginning must be loathsome to him. Later in 

 life, when the habit has become second nature, it is not bread, 

 but money, more money, which constrains him, and thus his 

 character may become crystallized into a hateful form. The 

 same process may operate in the lawyer. To the first dirty 

 professional job, he may drive himself against all his finer 

 feelings. It may seem to him a necessity that he do "this 

 thing." The second job will be less distasteful, though it may 

 be equally dirty, and in this manner may he also be led to 

 part with his priceless heritage of honor. These observations 

 are true to a larger or less extent of every line of gainful en- 

 deavor, with but one exception. Where they occur some men 

 yield not at all, some yield reluctantly, and still others are 

 made ready by heredity to perform the ignoble and the mean; 

 but the agriculturist, so far as his dealing is with the soil, 

 is subject to none of these temptations. Here integrity ab- 

 solute honesty is his sole reliance. He deals here with Nature 

 and her laws direct, and she is to be neither cheated nor be- 

 fooled. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap," 

 while true of all men eventually, is obviously and evidently 

 true for the husbandman at once. When he seeks to dis- 

 pose of that which he has harvested, when he ceases from the 

 strict work of the agriculturist and becomes a tradesman, 

 there may then come the temptation to trickery, but so long 

 as his dealings are with the soil, instead of offering the slight- 



