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Does the knowledge of the price of lard, or 

 an obituary notice in the newspapers, or the 

 esteem of Tom, Dick, and Harry atone for the 

 loss of all sport? Does the man who makes a 

 fortune accomplish so much for the world that 

 his own happiness or ease should not be allowed 

 to weigh in the balance? Civilization tends to 

 the importance of the individual. The middle 

 ages saw thousands compelled to labor for one 

 lord and master ; to-day each man is considered 

 as entitled to some share of the good things in 

 the world, and even women and children are 

 coming forward. In the distant future each 

 man will consider that the day is made for him, 

 and that he who fails to enjoy himself that is, 

 to use the gifts of nature rationally is a fool. 

 Civilization should mean emancipation from 

 drudgery, and unquestionably man will some 

 day cease to labor in the present meaning of the 

 word. When machinery attains to such per- 

 fection that the ground is ploughed, the seed 

 is sown, the crops are tended, watered, gathered 

 without the work of man ; when power, light, 

 heat, are so cheap as to be as free as air 

 to every one, actual labor to provide food, 



