Thought and Labor.
Buskin says : It is ano less fatal error to despise labor, when regulated by intellect, than to value it for its own sake. We are always in these days trying to separate the two ; we want one man to be always thinking and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman and the other an operative ; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense. As it is, we make both ungentle, the one envying, the other despising his brother, and the mass of society is made up of morbid thinkers and miserable workers. Now, it is only by labor that thought can be made happy : and the professions should be liberal, and there should be less pride felt in peculiarity of employment and more in exoellenoe of achievement.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2057, 12 September 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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150Thought and Labor. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2057, 12 September 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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