Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-05
Weaith--work--power.

Weaith--WOrk--
Emerson's Conduc, of Life" published
by Tleknnr and Fields, IL rich in tho't
angular. sharp, precise.
Thus Of WEALTH. 1.-The Grt of getting
rich CONSIST not in industry, much less in
swing, but in better order, ia timeliness
~ being In the right spot One man has
ionger arms or longer legs; another sees
py The course OF streams and growth Of
markets where land will be wanted, max es
clearing to the river. goes to sleep, and
wakes up rich Steam is no stronger now
than 1t was hundred years ago, hut it is
put TO better use. A clever fellow was
acquainted with the expansive force Of
stream he also saw the wealth Of wheat
aE'i grass rottiEg in Michigan. Then he
cpnningiy screws on the steRm-pipe to the
wheat crop. Puff now. o sieaml The
steam puts and expands as before. but this
tlme 1t is dragging all Michigan at it's back
70 hungry New York aud hungry Eng
land
Wealth begins in tight roof that keeps
the rain and wind out; in good pump
THAT yields Won plenty OF sweet water; in
two suits of clothes so as TO change your
clothes when they are wet; in dry sticks to
burn In good double wicked lamp; in
three meals; IN horse or locomotive to
traverse the land; in boat to cross the
sea IN tools TO work with in books 10
read and so in giving, on all sides, by
tools and auxileries the greatest possible
extension To- our powers, as if it added feet
and HANDS and eyes and blood, length TO
the day, and knowledge aud good will.
''lic Is the rich man who can avail HIM
self Of all mems faculties lie is the rich
est man who knows how to draw n benefit
from the lahOrs of the greatest number of
men III distant countries, and in past times.
The same correspondence that is between
thirst in the stomach and water in the
spring, exists between the whole OF tue men
and the whole of nature.
Nobody but Emerson, perhars would
/ have thought Of putting the case thus ard
/ screwl1g on the steam pipes to the wheat
crops of Michigan "
| Concentration ard the virtue of work
are sharply set forth: The one prudence
IN life is concentration the one evil is dis.
sipati0D ; and il makes no difference wheth
| err our designations are coarse or fine; prop
! erty and Its cares, friends and social
/ habit, or politics, or music, or feasting-
Everything is good which takes away one
| plaything and delusion more, and drives
us home o. add one stroke of faithful work
/ Friends, books, pictures. lower duties, tai
ents batteries, hOpes-all are distractions
which cause oscillations in our giddy bal
looms, and make a good 3oise and a straight
course impossible. You must elect your
work; ynu shall take what your brain can
ard drop all the rest. Only so can that
amount Of vital force accumulate which
can make the step from knowing to do.
| ing
Here is the philosophy Of powcr:-
la every company, there are not only
the active and passive sex, but, in both mcr
and women. deeper and more Important
sex OF mind, namely: the inventive or ere
ative class Of buth men and women, aul
the uHinventive or accepting class. Eact
plus man represents his set, and if he have
the accidental advantage of pers inal as
cendancy--which implies neither n ore mol
less talent, but merely the temperamenta
or tanning eye OF soldier or school mas
ter. (which one has, and one has not, a.
j as one has 2 black mustache and one |
Bi0nde,l then quite easily, and with5u
envy or resistance, all his conductors and
feeders will admit bis right to absorb them
The merchant works,h 10y bonkkeeper anC
cashier; the lawyers authorities are haun
ted up by clerks; the geologist reports tn,
surveys of his subalterns Commanded
Wilkes appTopriates the results of all th,
naturaliSts attached to the expedition
Thorwaldsen's statue is finished bv stone.
cutters; Dumas has jourGeymen an,
Shakespeare was theater manager, an,
used the labor vt many young men, as wei
as the play books
There is always room for man 81
force, AID he makes room for many. 81.
ciety is a troop of thinkers, and the hes
heads among them take the best places -
A feeble man can see the farms that ar
fenced and titled, the houses that are built
The strong man sees the possible house
and farms. His eye makes estates as fas
as the sun breeds clouds.
Success thus goes invariably with
certain plus or positive power; an ouue
of power must balance an ounce @
weight"