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girl to to sure, atla pllt out the light. She replied that shd had already 4one. so, and that it was a pity he had wasted his shoe leatheir {n walking hack so far to remind her. To this he answer*^ that he had already thought of this and had therefore taHen off his shoes and carried them under his arm so as not to ^ear them out!
And here you ,hsm, a Wretched class of miserly so-called « economists'9 who art, afraid to light their lamp, lest they should burn the oil, g^a who would rather sleep in the darkness, doing notbi^ or break their necks fumbling' about in their vain effo^.ju $0 a little, when for a farthing* dip they may put in lioiixS of i->rofitable toil ! And when a shoe is provided for the swplttU io<,t of a nation they are stf afraid of wasting their shoe leather, that they nx/uH Bather hobble about belamed With' thorns, stones, heat, or cold, than lay out the little that i-i'neoest-^i-y to briiigtheia so ample a return!
Each labourer represents to the &tate wk^it ihe piece of gold * is to the miser. He is the human bipita- V>f the natf;n^Ai<L^ is capable of producing annual intAest "'-n\ the /at«^c at least a hundred per cent, if placed i;i sul*k;J^r^y favourable • circumstances. What folly is it then, ^av what culpable ,faeg% ligence, nay what nothing short orerimiuality to.^iBk this human gold in the bogs of beggary and destitution I' Man is the most wonderful piece of mcfeinp-Ty that exist^ ia -the world I The cleverest inventions rf^utyjn science spk , into insignificance in comparison witktek f> tko^whole 4®*r ; verse is so planned that his services^armof^^lilpeii^d and indeed he is at the same time the tt^/"b^tifu\ m^ and the essential keystone of the t \
utmost that science itself can do is to prfiu*- X.
tive powers.