Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-11-13
BACKBONE o@ GENIUS,
That Is the Ear,a G u tG Work by Ma sS
 EnmnMs Men.

That Is the HRr,e C Y u tG Work by May
 Famnus .dlrU.
 "There is one plain rulo of life," says Stuart Mill, "eternally binding, and in' dependent of all variations in creeds, embracing equally tue greatest moral ties and the smallest. It is this-Try thyselt unweariadlY till thou tlndest the highest thing thou art capable ot doing, faculties and outward circum- stances being both duly considered; and then do it." Ruskin, on being told of 8 man who was genus, immediately in- quired: "Does he work?"
 'I find," observed Dr. Livingstone, that all eminent mon work hard Eminent geologists, mineralogists, meI of science work hard, and that botf early and late" Mir. Blackmore ir Alice Lorraine, has told us how 'Mabel Lovejoy waited long, and wondered. hoped, despaired. and fretted; and ther worked hard ana hoped again." And the late President Garfield said: "The worst days of darkness through whict I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with al: my energy into some work relating tc others.''
 "Between vague wavering Can&bil. ity," wrote Carlyle, land fixed indubita' ble Performance, what difference! A certain inarticulate Self-consciousnes dwells dimly in us, which only ouI Works can render articulate and de- cisively discernible. Our Works are the mirror wherein the Spirit first sees it's natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible Know myself; till it be translated into this partially possible one: Know what thou canst work at" Again: "Lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service: Do the duty which lies nearest thee,' mich thou knowest to be Duty In's ond Duty will already have become c.earer."
 "Dear to the heart of Carlyle" says Paxton Hood, twas that motto of tie old monks, Labor is worship We have met with some few men, and with women too, who could not comprehend it, and to whom it was dim, occult mystical saying; they wanted an expla. nation of it. Poor things! and we had n' Nplanation to give, for this is ono of those sayings for which no explana' tion will suffice; it must be felt to be true; no amount of commentary can else make it appear reasonable. TC | work is the human mission; he who | shrinSs from labor shrinks from the purpose of his existence. It is sad that to so many thousands of persons now | adays it should be necessary to say this Labor is everlastingly noble and holy, it is the source of all perfection; no man can accomplish, or become accomplished without work; it is the purifying fire burning up the poisoning and corrupting influences emasculating the manhood of | the soul"
 In George Eliots Silas Manner we have this of the solitary weaver: '"Yes. sir, yes,' said Marner, meditatively; 'I should ha' been bad off without my work; it was what held by when every thing else was gone from me-"
 Goethe says: Fortune is the goddess of breathing mon; to feel her favors truly, we must live and be men who toll with their living minds and bodies. and enjoy with them also" Again "He who is born with capacities for any undertaking, finds in executing this the fairest portion of his being. ."-Cham- | bers' Journal