SYNOPSIS OF ADDllESS, 



BY PROF. P. A. CHADBOURXE. 



UTILIZATION OF LABOR. 



In the lull of War ^ye have time to taste the sweets of Peace. 

 And in New England, if in no other portion of the world, we can 

 see what men may enjoy under a free government, and what varied 

 sources of enjoyment may be found for every citizen among our 

 healthful hills and along our fertile vallies. All these rich pro- 

 ducts before us represent so much labor of hand and brain. They 

 have been gathered from the earth by the skilful labor of civilized 

 man. They minister to his wants, and these wants keep pace 

 with new discoveries and new inventions, with the progress of man 

 in civilization. Awhole nation of savages could not, in a life-time, 

 supply by their labor the products found in one of our New Eng- 

 land homes, — homes the result of the toil of one civilized man. 

 He has these sources of enjoyment because civilization has utili- 

 zed labor, and thus multiplied a hundred fold the power of a 

 single man. And this utilization of labor, in turn, has still further 

 advanced civilization, and thus we have the elements of progress 

 for the race. Civilization and utilization 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 till they become his never wearied servants. 

 The rains and dews upon the hills gather in springs, leap towards 

 the vallies in rivulets, until their combined weight poured upon 

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



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