Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1847-10-01

serve you as a means OF livelihood by giving
definitcness and concentration to your efforts.
You are to be a farmer. to get a living a man,
TO adorn life, and to fulfil the purposes for which
it was given. Nor need you fear to enter the
ortals at least of the other professions. OF
course YOU will be satisfied with one. and will
have no desire to add law to agriculture. Nor
would this be desirable for the doctrine Of a di-
vision of labor obtains here as well as in the
more material operations of men, and skill in
any particular calling is usually proportioned to
the eXclusivencss of devotion TO it. But ii you
may not be a lawyer, an acquaintance with
Blackstone and Kent cannot fail to be a source
of satisfaction even should il prove of no advan-
tagc. If you may not he a physician, a slight
reading in physiology and anatomy will not only
present to your contemplation some Of the most
stupenlous mysteries in the world of created
things, bnt may. perhaps. aid You in detecting
the quack, aud save yourselves and your iaini-
lies from falling victims to successful impostnre.
If yol may not assume the duties Of a preacher
OF righteousness. and perfect yourselves in all
the abstruse learning of theological po'emics.
you may at least ground yourselves well in the
general doctrines of philosophy, and principles
of right, that you may thereby become a more
Intelligent and more faithful nearer of him who
is ;-in the soil Of whose mind the seed will find
abundant n~ourishmcn', and ont of which it will
spring up and f~ruclitr. Thus much, at least.
you may do and must do unless You are content
to occupy a position far below that which your
means and your leisure place within your reach.
But with this YOU have no right TO be content.
The plea that YOU have enough to eat. and to
drink. and TO wear, and that you want nothing
more, is the plea Of a sluggard. You may say
that You work hard. and SO you do: but you
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o'c".li 10y ~ "nonJ man ,Lo
mental and physical powers Ucnenu upon Tie
proper exercise of each, that he who thinks to
cherish the one to the neglect of the other not
unlrequcntlv ends with the deprivation of both,
lour have your privileges and boast Of them
and Justly too. But these privileges draw du.
ties along with them and he is no true man
who will not show his thankiulness for the one
by cheerfully performing the other. Labor is
the condition of development and happiness, ant
a blessing is it inst ad Of a curse that we cal
bread in the sweat of our brows. ] say then
that YOU have no right to be content with any
position less digniiicd and important than You
are capable of filing. You have no right &c
suffer yorr mental machinery to 90 to ruin un.
der the decisive plea that YOU are well enough
off with a healthy body and enough to feed it.
You have no right thus to place yourselves on a
par with the mere machine for grinding corn.
Bat if this is your duty. so also is it your in
tercs,. In process of time this mutual co-opera-
ton of head and hand will gather more wheat
into your garner, will add new acres to your
homestead for all labor has its reward. Who
does not know that he who thinks and acts, who
plans and executes, himself for himself, is he
whose purse is the longest and the widest.
Shrcwlness, calculation. management are all
well maid: and what are all these but different
expressions for the same thing all indicating
that he to whom they are applied works with his
head rs well as his hands! What though the
progress in mental culture implied by these be