The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-17
THINGS NEEDFUL IN BUILDING,
UP A FRUITFUL CIVILIZATION
First of All The People Must Be Electrified With Driving
Power of a Great Ideal-Six Other Agencies Which
Will Help

ton, which IS 70 Say CONDITIONS
favora nle To the uttermost humA de.
Velopment-an environment wherein
every living being within its borders
may burgeon out all there's within
him, OF power and beauty and good
ness.
The perfect towering Of a great
civilization is nothing else than the
perfect towering of the Individuals
who compose that civilization.
The Heart OF the Question.
heart of our question:: What is the
perfect towering of q civilization. OF
any civilization: What must b. the
perfect towering Of that civilization
that We covet for North Carolina?
The answer, the only possible an
swer is, that it is work. achievemeng
based on character and great ideals
| Character is the so/ in which achieve
| Inent is rooted, but civilization is
achievement; civilization is character
in bearing. MANS record upon this
wild world as DR.. Holland has well
| said. lis the record OF work and of
work we'll alone This civilization
| of which We boast-what is it other
| than simply and wholly our accumu-
| lated inheritance from all past gener-
| ations Of workers? What is it but the
| houses, the cleared lands, the roads,
railroads. churches, libraries, inven-
tions, discoveries, laws and songs that
long ages of workers have wrought
| through the alchemy of labor? What
. is it but our inheritance from work
ers, from workers who have labored
ltStrenu ousiy enough not only to main
tain themselves, but to leave TO all fU
ture generations this surplus, plus, or
excess product which makes mp all OF
what we call civilization? And bar
barism or savagery, ii you analyZe it.
what is it but The lack OF such a per
manent laborbuilt treasure?
In other words, the question: of
whether any citizen shall count, when
his life'S record is madc up, amcnf,
| the ciVilizing forces OF the world OF
among its barbarian forces depends
| wholly upon whether or not he is a
creative worker, O productive worl1e,
and productive and creative to the
extent that he gives to the world an
to the race more than he takes from
it,
, Work Key To Civilization.
a mans work then actually deter
mines whether he is essentially Z civil
iZed man OF &, barbarian-or perhaps
| worse than q barbarian. IS an actud'
destroyer Of civilization II he ts 2
parasitic idler destroying the produc'
that others create, no matter whether
he has OF has not inherited q fortune
: The Almighty did not decree that MAJ
, should earn his bread in the sweat q.
his grandfathers brow, but IN tiae
e sweat of his own brow
D It has been noted a thousand time
s that wherever inferior race and supe
e rior races exist side by side and to I'll,
! inferior is given q large part Of th'
e manual labor, the fatal tendency i
G | for the superior race to lose the fibre
S strength, and vigor that comes ON.
Y through graphing with the big, rcugi
| elemental tasks Of industry-an,
G there is hardly any other sociological
fact Of more portentous significanc
s to us in North Carolina and al owe
the South. The God-likr power o
e creative, productive, constructiv
t work -straining. driving, struggling
e sweating, sreanning. throbbing tina
e is the founda ton on which any peopl
G must build Tor the future. Said 5riI
y old Thomas Carlyle long ago: "SEoN
e me a people energeticany busy: neaV
r ing, struggling, all shoulders at tn
z wheel; their heart pu!SinG. very mus
y Gle swelling with mans e'4rfsy an
Will;-I show YOU . people o1 Whof
Y great good is already predlcabie; :
z, whom ali manner Of good Is Yet Gel
IS tain il their energy eAdure."
al And Dr. Edward A. Steiner pro
q claims the same truth even NOR
1t force fully when nc declare:
IL SO long as men are ashamed % 4
e nothing, and nOt ashamed u do any
* thing which needs to he dom, So Ion
ID as the worker l. Lon"red ANA til
y. 4hirlzer disllonore3 q nation Is youn
ot a~ld nced not Dt afraid Of deat1
i Tuere * 10 truer s-4n Of our CROWN
Ii nid. suddenly oio. ban when III r
i Gard carrying nick-;4Xc ano sno. L Z
- iesra ding. apd carryins Goli-cln' an
tenuis-rachet as enncbling. II
Il Church OF JesJs Christ is the churc
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