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the horse, as well as hold the plough. Work 

 too in the garden, and this for kitchen as well as 

 for drawing-room; yet also for general beauty 

 as well as detailed use. Above all, and not 

 only for culture's sake but character's, get 

 out with the shepherds, till you know not 

 only something of their work, but of them- 

 selves. In each craft, at each level, learn not 

 only something of the immediate work, but 

 of its workers, and of their ideal aims, their 

 culture-spirit, for there is no true work and no 

 true worker without this : then you can choose 

 your occupation, or rather it will choose you, 

 and at such level as you may be fit to rise 

 to, here of its constructive toil and skill, 

 there of its song or story, its science or its 

 art. 



RUSTIC AND URBAN AS CONTRASTED IN 

 THOUGHT. Of all the many occupational ex- 

 periences there are but two main types, those 

 concerned with organic and with physical 

 nature, the rustic and the urban, in a word, the 

 vital and the mechanical. Here is the main 

 contrast of town and country, in their charac- 

 teristic experiences, their essential occupations ; 

 and the resultant interpretative evolutionary 

 standpoints which we are seeking will be 

 essentially these two, will be characterized 

 by familiarity with the processes of mechanism 



