THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY 
NOVEMBER,  igzo 
EDITORIAL. 
TO  WORK  FOR  ONE'S  PROFESSION,  A  DUTY. 
With  the  expulsion  of  our  first  parents  from  the  Garden  of  Eden, 
came  the  command:  "In  the  sweat  of  thy  face  shalt  thou  eat  bread, 
till  thou  return  unto  the  ground."  So  it  was  ordained  as  a  perpetual 
law  of  the  Omniscient  that  man,  the  highest  of  all  created  beings, 
must  be  sustained  throughout  his  existence  by  his  own  labor.  De- 
spite the  ages  that  have  passed  since  the  promulgation  of  this  Divine 
edict,  man,  as  yet,  has  formed  but  an  imperfect  conception  of  the 
creation  known  as  man  and  of  the  perfection  of  this  mechanism  and 
the  possibilities  of  the  mental  activity  and  physical  energy  stored 
within  the  human  frame. 
Labor  applied  in  accordance  with  the  Creator's  injunction 
"to  till,"  "to  produce,"  and  with  the  energy  that  will  cause  the  worker 
to  sweat,  is  the  foundation  of  all  achievement  and  the  source  of  true 
happiness.  He  who  fails  in  the  application  necessarily  also  fails 
to  get  out  of  his  work  any  real  satisfaction  or  enjoyment  and  will 
never  know  what  true  happiness  is.  Application  of  the  God -given 
talents  is  "the  thing  that  counts." 
"Not  what  we  have,  but  what  we  use; 
Not  what  we  see,  but  what  we  choose — 
These  are  the  things  that  mar  or  bless 
The  sum  of  human  happiness." 
If  one  studies  only  the  limited  circle  with  which  he  is  brought  in 
contact  in  his  daily  routine,  he  will  perceive  a  variety  of  characters 
and  a  diversity  of  actuating  motives  and,  moreover,  will  obtain  a 
new  view  of  the  proverbial  perversity  of  the  human  nature.  Doubt- 
less, he  will  note  the  very  large  percentage  of  those  that  he  meets 
who  are  engaged  in  the  purely  selfish  chase  after  wealth.  In  this 
scramble  after  dollars,  they  appear  indifferent  to  the  higher  ideals 
