The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-02-02

demned it as vain and sinful,-perhaps
with greater reason still for if we com
pare the two extremes of society, the af-
fluent, on the one hand, proudly Haunting
their Jewels and costly apparel and other
insignia of opulence to public view, often
outraging good taste to make a parade of
wealth, with the poor, on the other hand,
clad in coarse and perhaps patched and
tattered garments because the intensity of
their destitution permits no better-ex-
tremes presented by every considerable
town in Christendom,-or if we look into
our fashionable churches, and see the rich
gorgeously attired occupying luxurously
cushioned pews, furnished with Bibles,
prayer books and psalters cleaning with
gold, and proclaihing, by such and other
pargeantry, how smooth and fiowery they
are able TO make their pathway to heav-
en-, while we have to look elsewhere for
the poor, who dare not appear, in humble
garb, in the presence of those dainty wor-
shippers If, / say, we thus scrutinize the
extremes of society, as exhibited IN every
part of the civilized world, speetacles are
presented to view which the philanthro-
pist cannot contemplate without painful
emotions. But odious as such contrasts
are, IN certain aspects, let US not so mis-
represent them as to condemn, on their
account, the natural instincts of humani-
ty, oil of which are Individually DIVINE,
and when they can be brought to act in
circumstances adapted to their nature,
Will vindicate both the dignity and WIS
dom Of the source from which they came.
Even IN their most odious iorns they
may minister to human development IN
ways of which neither the economist or
the If1k ha1 ,lvaos.ayl Tho
pulsive features of our actual society do
not prove human nature wrong or imper-
feet, but only that it Is under the influence
of false conditions which need to be re-
formed. One thing, however, they do
prove, that we are prone to boast of a civ
ilization of which we ought to be ashamed
VI. The sixth condition of attractive
industry, and the last in our enumeration,
is, that he same occupation should HeueT
be unredSOndbly prolonged
The aversion to labor, as 1t is now COM
pulsorily forced upon the hireling. is large
ly due to the want of diversity in occupa-
TONS that is, to the fact that the laborer
Is confined to the same duh routine of
work until, though otherwise tolerable, it
becomes painful and repulsive by its mo-
notony. Both the body and the mind of
man require, not only alterations of ac-
tivity and repose, but alterations in the
form of activity So imperiou.sis this de-
mand that pursuits in themselves de-
Gghtful may be made offensive and hate
ful, if excessively, and especially if COM
pulsorily protracted. The aversion to
labor, therefore, can never be overcome
except by providing a great diversity of
occupations and securing frequent chan
ges from one to another, so frequent even
that in all ordinary cases, several changes
should be made every day. Indeed, when
labor shall be as eagerly engaged in and
as zealously prosecuted as, under perfect
ed system Of attractive industry it one
day viii be, human endurance will not
admit of its long continuance without al
formations of rest, and frequent changes
viii become not only important as con-
ditiOn of attraction, but indispensable as
preventive of excessive exertion.
FsAME SUBJECT TO BE CONTINUED.