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was abundant, small and scattering in its present 

 scanty beds, the clam (the long-neck clam) shall 

 again flourish, and all of New England shall again 

 rejoice and be glad. 



We are beginning, as a nation, while still the 

 years are fat with plenty, to be troubled lest 

 those of the future come hungry and lean. Up 

 to the present time our industrial ethics have 

 been like our evangelical religion, intensely, nar- 

 rowly individualistic, — my salvation at all costs. 

 44 Dress-goods, yarns, and tops " has been our in- 

 dustrial hymn and prayer. And religiously, even 

 yet, I sing of my own salvation : — 



While in this region here below, 

 No other good will I pursue : 

 I '11 bid this world of noise and show, 

 With all its glittering snares, adieu ; 



A most un-Christian sentiment truly, and all too 

 common in both religion and business, yet far from 

 representing, to-day, the guiding spirit of either 

 business or religion. For the growing conception 

 of human brotherhood is mightily expanding our 

 narrow religious selfishness; and the dawning re- 

 velation of industrial solidarity is not only mak- 

 ing men careful for the present prosperity of the 



