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of it. To " owe no man anything," and that it is to be " worse than an 

 infidel " not to provide for his own household, are as certainly divine pre- 

 cepts, as that " the love of money is the root of all evil," and that "hast- 

 ing to be rich multiplieth sorrows." There is only the difference that a 

 blessing goes with the first, and a curse with the last. Southey was right. 

 Honestly earned wages are as true a quiddam honorarium, a gracious 

 largesse, as any sum which the lawyer or physician, looking the other 

 way, finds fall into his palm. To know that, by work of brain, or heart, 

 or hand, or rather by all together, you have earned a penny, copper or 

 golden as the case may be, which you may honestly expend on some law- 

 ful want, in gratification of some innocent intellectual taste, or eesthetieal 

 desire, for the carrying out of some moral purpose, or for the comfort of 

 some beloved relative or friend, is one of the truest delights left to us, 

 after the flush of early youth has passed away. 



And the necessity which lies upon every man, high and low, except 

 the uncaught thief, to serve other men, and be paid by them as his task- 

 masters, is not the least pleasant leaf of that Dulcamara, bitter-sweet, 

 which Adam found growing everywhere beyond the gates of Eden. 

 Honourable service is the only freedom which belongs to man, and the 

 spirit of brotherly interest and sympathy never rises higher than between 

 the noble master and the noble servant. 



Secondly, The museum which I have been commending to you is a 

 museum of the industry of the world in relation to ourselves. It cannot 

 be less than this ; and as this it will increase our civilization, and add 

 -to our power to civilize the rest of the world. We have deserved well 

 of the other nations of the globe as improvers of the industrial arts, 

 but they also have deserved well of us. Tea, coffee, sugar, tobacco, 

 opium, cinchona, cotton, caoutchouc, gutta-percha, guano, have all been 

 bestowed upon us by distant tribes. The Chinese have taught us to 

 weave silk, to make paper and porcelain. The Indians have shown us 

 how to dye. The Venetians have given us the modern art of glass- 

 making. Our soda process is originally a French invention. The im- 

 provements introduced into the colonial manufacture of cane-sugar are 

 largely borrowed from the processes introduced by the continental 

 growers of the beet-root. There is not a single invention or discovery, 

 indeed, not excepting even the steam-engine, of which we as a people 

 can claim more than the lion's share ; and seeing that in our veins runs 

 the mingled blood of I know not how many unlike races, it would be very 

 strange if it were otherwise. 



To no one nation has been given the monopoly of genius, construc- 

 tive skill, and practical sagacity. All our modern arts, such as photo- 

 graphy and electro-metallurgy, have been rapidly developed by the 

 combined activity of quick-witted men all over the globe. Take in special 

 illustration of this two examples. The lucifer-match, although it was 

 born late in our own day, has this peculiarity about it, that no one, dead 



