VIS INERTIAE. 
( Obstruction .) 
“The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate prog- 
ress, but that they love inertia. Even as great a man as John 
Ruskin (English philosopher and art critic) foresaw that the 
railroads would ruin England by driving the stages out of busi¬ 
ness, killing the demand for horses, and thus ruining the farmer. 
“Thomas Jefferson (third President of the United States) 
tells us, in his autobiography, a story of a neighbor of his who 
was “agin” the public schools, because *when every one could 
read and write, no one would work.* 
“And the argument seems to be this : If you think a thing is 
right, never mind what the many say, stick to it. 
“Work for it, live for it, die for it—this way immortality 
lies.” Hubbard. 
