The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-11
Present-Day Thoughts.
written for the Citizen.)
BY "NEMO."

me world are all against a man;
that the chills of winter bcnumb
him; that the heats of summer
enervate him; that the hills i'm
pede his progress; that the earth
| quakes cast down his effort and
that time brings him to naught.
1t is clear to him, therefore, that
whatever this world has gained
in any direction is the outcome
of strenuous exertion.
He sees in the complicated
world around him with its factor
les and its farms, its cities and
its homes the result of human
thought translated into human
effort. From the humblest shack
to the loftiest building, and from
the organization of the simplest
farm to that of the most progress
sive and complicated modern
city, some ones thought outlined
the thing before it was and some
ones effort made it to be. Thus
to him thought transformed into
effort is the greatest power in the
world; thought followed 10y no eff
fort is lruitless; effort preceded
by no thought is waste.
The New Man, as a toiler, hon
ors labor with his whole heart.
He sees furthermore that as the
many drops of water make the
rolling sea 80 this vast world, as
moulded and conquered by man,
is what it is because the labor of
one is aided by the labor of an
other, and the effort of one gen
Grafton is carried on to greater
perfection by the generations that
follow. He, therefore, does not
honor labor that thinks only of
itself and that fails to recognize
its cooperation with all that are,
have been and are to be. View
ing things i'll this way, lie sees no
disgrace in any form of toll that
helps on the world. The man
who yields the hoe becomes to
him fully as honorable as the man
who thinks the thought that gives
the hoe employment To him all
men are honorable who do honor
able work wherever they are cast;
to him all men are dishonorable
who think only of gain for them
selves, no matter what happens to
others.
Yet at the same time he .sees
great law at work which undoes
the seltishness Of the world and
makes it, Notwithstanding its
own blindness and evil, help on
the work of the whole; for even the
unruly and the thieving have
themselves been the cause of much
that is organized and orderly and
law abiding in the world. There
fore the New Man. as toiler, sol
aces himself in the midst of his
own perplexities and hardships
with the thought that all works
ultimately work together for good
in this great work a day world;
the work of the grasping them
selves being the source OF effort
on the part of others, to see that
the grasping is forced to surren-
der up its good to the great hu-
man family. The New Man.
above all things, is consequently
hopeful, whether he toll with his
head directed hand, or with his
head alone directing other
hands.
The New Man, as toiler, al
lows himself no depression at
seeing things go seemingly
wrong for he knows that sooner
or later, inst as in the past, the
restless, upward movement of this
wOndrous hnman race will keep
on righting wrongs, even though
it may not be in his little span of
time. This hopefulness of his
does not prevent him from striv-
ing to bring Improvement in his
day but it does save him from
that restless rattling around that
is the very undoing of sue
cessful effort, and it does impart
to him the quiet of spirit which
increases a mans power. He |
even rejoices at being awake to |
the fact that things III his day are
not all they ought to be; for in
those very defects he discovers q
reason for his own being and for
his own working; and he is glad |
The New Man, as a toiler, sees /
that the most miserable Of all I
men are hose who have no cause
for exertion and who live Off the
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