Show ON WORK manual labor is a school in which men to get energy of purpose and character a vastly more import important nt endowment than all the learning ol of all schools they are placed indeed under hard masters physical sufferings erinEs and wants the power of fearful elements and the vicissitudes of all human things butA stern teachers do a work wok which no compassionate si onate indulgent friend could do for us ind and true wisdom will bless providence for their sharp ministry I 1 have great faith in hard work the material in world does much jor for the mind by its beauty and order but it does more for hiir our minds by the pai pains ills it inflicts sty by its obstinate resistance ance which nothing but patient toil can overcome e by its vast forces which nothing but unremitting skill and effort can turn to our use by its perils which demand continual vigilance and by its tendencies ie s to decay I 1 believe that difficulties are more important import antto ato the human mind than what we call work we all must if we mean to bring out and perfect our nature Willi william arn ellery channing |