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sidedness). The " Fielseitgkeit," (the many-sided- 

 ness) few experience. All, it is this " Einseitigkeit," 

 that renders all reform so difficult ; and bigotry and 

 prejudice so irresistible. Men must experience the 

 " Fielseitgkeit," to know it, but circumstances chain 

 them to the " one-sided" view, and so we go stumb- 

 ling on in the old paths, or like an old mill horse round 

 and round in the same circle, stereotyping anew the 

 groans and complaints of our fathers. Here a man 

 will toil for forty years and die poor, while in the city 

 a successful speculation often ensures a life of idleness 

 and luxury. Industry then is not always the sure 

 road to wealth. 



But I will not weary you with an essay on social life, 

 I will only say that it is a poor argument which meets 

 our complaints, from the pulpit and press, viz., 

 " After all, happiness is about equally divided." This 

 maxim is believed, because it is the converse of a true 

 proposition, which is, " one man is about as miserable 

 as another." That is, the laws of Nature and Heaven 

 are such that he who accumulates to live a life of idle- 

 ness is made as miserable as the man he impoverishes 

 in order to do it. Thus, it is true, that happiness is 

 pretty equally divided, because the misery the present 



