The Commercial Age

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Excerpt from The Commercial Age: Miscellaneous Essays "In the darkness as in daylight, On the water as on land, God's eye is watching o'er us, And beneath us is his hand, Death will find us soon or later, On the deck or in the cot, And we cannot meet Him better, Than in working out our lot." The conditions of our civilized life seem to grow more difficult year by year. More young people are forced out each year to earn their living, but this really is no hardship, for labor means new knowledge and added power day by-day. To be working for a living is the best fate that can overtake one, unless that labor degenerates into grinding toil or drudgery. Without the fruits of labor there can be no happiness, and without happiness life is an aching void. "Labor is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself to be useless, For wearily the body groaneth, like a door on rusty hinges." "The age is extraordinary, the spirit that actuates it is peculiar and marked, and our own relation to the times we live in, and to the questions which interest them, is equally marked and peculiar. We are placed, by our good fortune and the wisdom and valor of our ancestors, in a condition where we can act no obscure part. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.