of time or strengtli. But far different are tlie demands of civilized 

 life. New wants keep pace with new discoveries and new inventions, 

 till the simple New England home represents skill and labor 

 astounding to one who traces all its comforts and luxuries back 

 through all their processes to their original products. The varied 

 fabrics of the household ! How many mills, what complicated 

 machinery and wonderful chemistry do they suggest! The well 

 fiUed library demands for its production an army of laborers. 

 Every time the frugal meal is spread, we find upon the table the 

 •products of other lands only supphed through the discoveries and 

 commerce of civihzed nations. A whole nation of savages could 

 not, in a hfe time, supply by their labor the products in one of our 

 best New England homes — homes the result of the toil of a single 

 civihzed man. He has all these soui'ces of enjoyment because 

 civiHzation has utilized labor, and thus multiplied a hundred fold 

 the powers of a single man. This utilization of labor has still 

 further advanced civilization and thus we have the conditions of 

 progress for the race. Civilization and utihzation go hand in hand, 

 mutually reacting upon each other. 



And where are found the grand elements of this utilization? 

 Plainly, first in the forces of nature. These forces are guided and 

 controlled by man tiU they become his never wearied servants. 

 The rains and dews upon the hiUs gather in springs, leap towadrs 

 the valleys in rivuleis, iintil their combined weight poured upon the 

 ponderous wheel, gives life to the spindle and the loom. The 

 guiding hand of man is needed, but with the aid of this falling 

 Avater, he draws out a thousand threads as he could but one by his 

 unaided strength. That wheel through which the water plunges 

 by its own weight as it rushes on to find its ocean level, multijDlies 

 the labor of all who work above it a hundred fold. It took time 

 and hard labor and skill, mdeed, to dam up the floods, to lead them 

 along in canals and to fashion all the wheels and shafting by which 

 their power is transmitted from room to room and machine to 

 machine. But all of this labor is but a fraction of the multiplied 

 power which they give to the service of man, before worn out by 

 their own revolutions. 



The forest trees and beds of coal are so much governed strength 

 — strength set free by fire that by expanding steam moves Titanic 

 wheels and levers obedient to the will of man. Calling this power 

 to his aid, the engineer hurls the proud ship against Avind and tide 

 and moves the heavy laden train with the swiftness of tlie wind. 



