INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT. 2\y 



The city would have died out, rotted, and exploded long 

 ago, unless it were recruited from the country." The 

 city of to-day was the country of yesterday. 



The tendency of the time is evidently in the direction 

 of constantly decreasing the number of those who have 

 effectual contact with the soil, and increasing the num- 

 ber who would be mere parasites upon those who re- 

 main, reducing the worst victimized to the mere exercise 

 of their animal powers. It is quite frequently contended 

 by students of ethnology, that slavery was a necessity of 

 early times, in order that a few might be enabled to have 

 the leisure necessary for thought and for mental growth. 

 To-day, all kinds of devices are set on foot to tempt the 

 tillers of the soil into permitting others to do their 

 thinking for them. They, in effect say : " You work 

 and I think." 



While the farmer's income is not increased, most other 

 classes combine and force an increase of theirs. They 

 tell us that mental giants must not be forced to do man- 

 ual labor, and that mental workers must have all the edu- 

 cating influences possible at their disposal, and if their 

 services are procured, the recompense must be com- 

 mensurate with a satisfaction of these conditions ; which 

 amounts to this, that those who in most cases have to 

 meet these conditions must work a little harder, with the 

 hope that eventually an indirect benefit will follow. For 

 instance, our governments in effect are great armies of 

 parasites, which are continually creating some new plan 

 for making places for additions to their numbers. That 

 these new ones may be supported, the supporting class 

 must work a little harder, and have, for satisfaction, the 

 consoling assurance that a new batch has been created 

 to do their thinking. 



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