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Page 26 text:
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Every where young Americans have put their hands to the plough and are driving new furrows neath the opening morn with varied purposes. Some to grow more grain for barley feeding and material ease, others merely to show they can drive a deeper and a straighter furrow, others because they realize that it is not well to stand all the day idle while there is work enough, and good work to do; others because their souls are thrilled, as the earth in spring time with the quickened blood of roots, and they too would bring forth abundantly, sowing the great Hereafter in this Now. We the heirs of all the ages must add something to our heritage that the future may say of us as we of whom we inherit. Their crumbling dust is the soil our life fruit grows upon. We are coming to the fore as a nation great in battle, strong in wisdom, of barbarous opulence and it has become our manifest duty to develop some great and characteristic virtues with which to enrich the future. It will not do to be merely wise, strong of hand, and rich of purse. These if they stand alone are but the beginnings of evil and will prove not only our own, but a world ' s curse. We are not braver than other brave people, we are not more polite, we are not more honest or more truthful or more sincere or kind. I wish to God that some virtue, say the virtue of truthfulness, could be known throughout the world as the unfailing mark of the American — the mettle of his pasture. Not to lie in business, not to lie in love, not to lie in religion — to be honest with ones fellowmen, with women, with God. Suppose the rest of mankind would agree that this virtue constituted the characteristic of the American! That would be fame for ages. 20
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,URGERV. Introduction. » ? » I AVING put your hand to the plough do not look back if you would drive a straight furrow, is old world philosophy not discredited by the new. Many furrows must we plough and deep if we wish to gather the ripened grain of such quality and quantity to repay the labor of seed time; nor must we give too exclusive thought to the quality of the harvest. Tares run through all the farmer ' s garnered autumn sheaves yet though the gleaners apron holds pure wheat we count her poorer . Even a little wild oats here and there may not be amiss if we do not fail in due season to plant the corn. Though we may hesitate to accept at its full Tennyson ' s suggestion, that had the wild oats not been sown, we scarce had grown the grain whereby a rpan may live; yet no doubt growth of any kind is an evidence of more or less fertility of soil and of some measure of cultivation. It is on stony ground only that no growth occurs. Mark Twain tells of an alpine farmer who accidently let go the handle of his plough and fell off his farm and we infer-was never after heard of although as Wm. Ellery Chauning, Jr., has it he may still be sounding and booming to an infinite abysm, whatever that may be. The lesson to be learned, however, is clear do not let go the handle of your plough whether to look back or by accident, especially when engaged in alpine farming, and in fact most farming is figuratively speaking, of that kind, and negligence is liable to be attended with disaster. Keep an eye to the distant end of the furrow and a firm grasp on the handle of the plough if you want to reap a full harvest instead of the whirlwind, or even the scanty, gleaner ' s apron full of pure wheat. 19
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