Man is an expensive animal and ought to be rich.
Wealth has its source in the application of mind to nature. The most intimate ties subsist between thought and nature. The art of getting rich consists, not in industry, but in being at the right spot for such getting, and in the right application of forces. Steam was as abundant 100 years ago as now, but it was not put to so good a use as now. The Oxbow Course of Empire - patron Lumen Reed National Academy of Design 4 images from the Munson Williams Proctor Institute on the Cole page of the Living Schoolbook Project at Syracuse 2.