![]() ![]() In fact, they murder the English language. Of thousands of young women trying to get a living at typewriting, many are so ignorant, so deficient in the common rudiments even, that they spell badly, use bad grammar, and know scarcely anything of punctuation. It is a superficial age very few prepare for their work. ![]() It is almost impossible to find a really competent person in any department, and oftentimes we have to make many trials before we can get a position fairly well filled. “The body of an athlete and the soul of a sage,” wrote Voltaire to Helvetius “these are what we require to be happy.”Īlthough millions are out of employment in the United States, how difficult it is to find a thorough, reliable, self-dependent, industrious man or woman, young or old, for any position, whether as a domestic servant, an office boy, a teacher, a brakeman, a conductor, an engineer, a clerk, a bookkeeper, or whatever we may want. Said Jean Paul Richter: “I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.” “Nephew,” said Sir Godfrey Kneller, the artist, to a Guinea slave trader, who entered the room where his uncle was talking with Alexander Pope, “you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world.” “I don’t know how great men you may be,” said the Guinea man, as he looked contemptuously upon their diminutive physical proportions, “but I don’t like your looks I have often bought a much better man than either of you, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.”Ī man is never so happy as when he suffices to himself, and can walk without crutches or a guide. Only he is healthy who exults in mere animal existence whose very life is a luxury who feels a bounding pulse throughout his body who feels life in every limb, as dogs do when scouring over the field, or as boys do when gliding over fields of ice.ĭispense with the doctor by being temperate the lawyer by keeping out of debt the demagogue, by voting for honest men and poverty, by being industrious. It is the overflowing fountain, not the one half full, that gives life and beauty to the valley below. To endure the strain of our concentrated civilization, the coming man and woman must have an excess of animal spirits. One great need of the world to-day is for men and women who are good animals. “Hear me, O men,” cried Diogenes, in the market place at Athens and, when a crowd collected around him, he said scornfully, “I called for men, not pigmies.” ![]() Garfield, when asked what he meant to be, “I must make myself a man if I do not succeed in that, I can succeed in nothing.” Let him first be a Fortune may remove him from one rank to another, as she pleases, he will be always found in his place.” When I have done with him, it is true he will be neither a soldier, a lawyer, nor a divine. To live is the profession I would teach him. It matters little to me whether my pupil be designed for the army, the pulpit, or the bar. Rousseau says: “According to the order of nature, men being equal, their common vocation is the profession of humanity and whoever is well educated to discharge the duty of a man cannot be badly prepared to fill any of those offices that have a relation to him. “I can’t,” replied the doctor, “to be a Baptist is as high as one can get.”īut there is something higher than being a Baptist, and that is being a “Louder! louder!” shouted a man in the audience “we can’t hear.” “Get up higher,” said another. “I thank God I am a Baptist,” said a little, short Doctor of Divinity, as he mounted a step at a convention.
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