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Show Esgap on quickly in some sort € Labor is watche Compengation over by the same pitiless laws. Cheapest say the prudent, is the dearest labor. Wha we buy in a broom, a mat, a wagon, a knife is some application of good sense to common want. It is best to pay in your lan a skilful gardener, or to buy good sens applied to gardening; in your sailor, goo sense applied to navigation; in the house good sense applied to cooking, sewing serving; in your agent, good sense applie to accounts and affairs. So do you multipl your presence, or spread yourself through out your estate. But because of the dua constitution of things, in labor as in lif there can be no cheating. The thief steal from himself. The swindler swindles him self. For the real price of labor is knowledg and virtue, whereof wealth and credit ar signs. These signs, like paper money, ma be counterfeited or stolen, but that whic they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen. Thes ends of labor cannot be answered but b 2 Digital mage© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah. Al rights reserved |