Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-01-03
Health-W ork-Power

Emerson's "Con1uct Of Lite," published
by Ticknor & Fields, is rich in thought,
ANGULAR, sharp, precise.
Thus. of wealth: The art Of getting
rich consists not in industry, much less in
saving, but in better order, in timeliness
in being in the right spot. One man has
longer arms or longer legs; another sees by
the course of streams and growth of markets
where land will be wanted makes q cleariu 2
70 the river, goes to sleep, and wakes up
] rich Steam is no stronger now than i was
. hundred years ago, butt IS pufTto better
use A clever fellow was acquainted with
the expansive force of steam; he also saw
the wealth of wheat and grass rotting in
Michigan. Then he cunningly screws on
the steam-pipe to the wheat crop. Puff
now. o steam The steam pufs and ex-
pands as before, but this time it is dragging
all Michigan at its back to hungry New
York and hungry England.
Wealth begins in tight roof that keeps
the rain and wind out; in good pump that
yields you plenty of sweet water; in two
suits of clothes, so as to change your dress
when you are wet; in dry sticks to burn !;
in good double-wick lamp; in three meals;
in horse or locomotive to cross the land;
in boat to cross the sea in tools to work
with ; in books to read; and so in giving,
on all sides, by tools and auxilliaries the
greatest possible extension to our powers,
as if it added feet and hands and eyes and
blood, length to the day, and knowledge
and good will.
''He is the rich man who can avail HIM
self of all mems faculties. He is the richest
man who knows how to draw benefit from
the labors of the greatest number of men in
distant countries, and in past times. The
| same correspondence that is between thirst
in the stomach and water in the spring, ex-
lists between the whole of men and the whole
of nature"
Nobody but Emerson, perhaps would
have thought of putting the case thus, and
screwing on the steam pipes to the wheat
crops of Michigan.
Concentration and the virtue of work are
sharply set forth ''The one prudence in
life is concentration the one evil is dissipa
tion and it makes no difference whether
our dissipations are coarse or fine property
and its cares, friends and a social habit, OF
politics, or music, or feasting: Everything
is good which takes away one plaything and
delusion more, and drives us home to add
one stroke of faithful work. Friends,
books, pictures, lower duties, talents, fat
teries, hopes-all are distractions which
cause oscillations in our giddy balloons, and
make a good poise and straight course
impossible You must elect your work
you shall take what your brain can, and
drop all the rest. Only SO can that amount
of vital force accumulate which can make
tie step from knowing to doing"
Here is the philosophy of power: I'm
every company, there are not only the ac-
tive and passive sex, but, in both men and
women, deeper and more important sec of
mind, namely: the inventive or creative
class of both men and women, and the un-
inventive or accepting class. Each plus
man represents his set, and, if he have the
accidental advantage of personal ascend
ancy-which implies neither more nor less
talent, but merely the temperamental or
tanning eye Of soldier or a school-master,
! (Which one has, and one has not, as one has
black mustache and one a blonde then
quite easily, and without envy or resistance,
all his ceadjutors and feelers will admit his
right to absorb them. The merchant works
by bookkeeping and cashier; the lawyers
authorities are hunted up by clerks; the
geologist reports the surveys of his subal-
terms; Commander Wilkes appropriates the
results of all the naturalists attached to the
expeditions: Thorwaldsen's statue is finished
by stone-cuttcrs: Dumas has journeymen