LECTURE LVIL 

 SAVING TIME. 



"The gods for labor give us all good things. "- 

 Epicharnus. Fact of experience. Nothing of worth 

 for other price. Temporary loans always charged 

 heavy interest. " By their long memories the gods 

 are known." The "gods" the personified forces of 

 Nature. Human strength depends on our acting 

 with them. He who knows the will of the gods can 

 trust all and fear nothing. He who defies them wields 

 a club of air. 



Progress through self-activity. In saving of time. 

 Law of acceleration. Degradation results from loss of 

 time. Law of retardation. Drudgery of civilization ; 

 doing more than one's part because others do less. 



Most of poverty due to unwillingness or inability to 

 pay price of wealth. No one should take out of life 

 what he does not put in. Each gets what he pays for. 

 Gods give not all good things to same man. Each 

 must choose. Who has earned right to choose is satis- 

 fied with choice. He who wastes time comes in for 

 last choice. Leisure of life spent in advance ; interest 

 on borrowed time to pay to hardest of creditors. De- 

 generacy of gilded pauperism as of hopeless poverty 

 associated with wasted time. Danger of future not in 

 power of rich, but in weakness of poor. Weakness and 

 waste carry misery to all joined to them in industrial 



