" How shall he become wise that holdeth the plow, that 

 glorieth in the shaft of the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occu- 

 pied in their labors, and whose discourse is of the stock of bulls? 

 He will set his heart upon turning his furrows; and his wake- 

 fulness is to give his heifers their fodder. So is every artificer 

 and workmaster . . . the smith sitting by the anvil . . . the 

 potter sitting at his work. 



" All these put their trust in their hands; and each becometh 

 wise in his own work. Without these shall not a city be inhab- 

 ited, and men shall not sojourn nor walk up and down therein. 

 But they shall not be sought for in the council of the people, 

 and in the assembly they shall not mount high ; they shall not 

 sit on the seat of the judge, and they shall not understand the 

 covenant of judgment; neither shall they declare instruction and 

 judgment, and where parables are they shall not be found. But 

 they will maintain the fabric of the world ; and in the handy- 

 work of their craft is their prayer. 



" Not so he that hath applied his soul, and meditateth in the 

 law of the Most High. He will seek out the wisdom of all 

 the ancients, and will be occupied in prophecies. He will keep 

 the discourse of the men of renown, and will enter in amidst the 

 subtilties of parables. He will seek out the hidden meaning of 

 proverbs, and be conversant in the dark sayings of parables. 

 He will serve among great men, and appear before him that 

 ruleth." 



Ecclesiasticus. 



" Our civilization rests at bottom on the wholesomeness, the 

 attractiveness, and the completeness, as well as the prosperity, 

 of life in the country." 



Theodore Roosevelt, 1909. 



" Every sign of these terrible days of war and revolutionary 

 change, when economic and social forces are being released upon 



