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Show real exertions of the mind, and in obedience Egsay o to pure motives. The cheat, the defaulter, Compengatio the gambler, cannot extort the benefit, cannot extort the knowledge of material an mora nature whic his honest care an pains yield to the operative. The law o nature is, Do the thing, and you shall hav the power; but they who do not the thin have not the power Human labor, through all its forms, fro 1 the sharpening of a stake to the constructio of a city or an epic, is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of th I universe. Everywhere and always this la is sublime. The absolute balance of Giv and Take, the doctrine that every thing ha its price, and if that price is not paid, no that thing, but something else, is obtained and that it is impossible to get anythin without its price, is not less sublime in th columns of a ledger than in the budgets o states, in the laws of light and darkness, i all the action and reaction of nature. I cannot doubt that the high laws which eac Digital Image © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah. All rights reserved |