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Subject Matter Discussed in this Book (Partial Only, See Full Contents Below): Victorian Home House Family Domestic Household Morals Virtues Success God Bible Society Antique Leather Etiquette Manners Deportment Spirituality Parenthood Childhood Children New England Motherhood Mother Maternal Duties Love Father Fatherhood Heaven Christ Christian Christianity Home Schooling Education Manhood Ambition Character Luck Fortune Wife Husband Happiness Politeness Courtesy Integrity Marriage Labor Work Industry Death Mourning

THE HOMES OF OUR COUNTRY: Or the Centers of Moral and Religious Influence; The Crystals of Society; The Nuclei of National Character. Compiled by Walter T. Griffin, A.M. Published in 1881 by Chas. L. Snyder Co., New York. 9” x 6” cloth hardcover. 640 pages.

Condition: GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Exterior as shown in photo, some spotting on rear board. Firm binding. Text is clean and complete. Minor foxing. No torn, loose or missing pages. Very nice.

Description: THE HOMES OF OUR COUNTRY is a Victorian guide to living a happy, prosperous, polite and virtuous existence. The title of the book refers to the role played by the American home and its beneficent influence upon those who dwell within.

This handsome Victorian volume consists of a series of compelling essays on a range of vital topics to illustrate virtues and vices, personal responsibilities and duties, managing one’s emotions, facing challenges and adversities, appreciating one’s blessings, social institutions and etiquette, personal appearance, marriage, home life, spiritual harmony, God, the Bible, etc.

THE HOMES OF OUR COUNTRY is a book written in an era when personal achievement, social etiquette and moral rectitude were highly esteemed in America – a time when success was measured not by how many “likes” or “followers” you have on social media, but by the degree of respect and esteem you commanded in your local community and among your peers. The truths contained in this book are as valid today as the day it was first published, the only difference being that modern society has turned a deaf ear.

The Preface proclaims:

… the aim has been to give the young men and women who are just entering life a grand impulse, to direct their attention to the foundation principles of character and true success, to infuse them with a love for right and truth, and to hold up before them warnings and examples for the life that is before them … to give the proper bent to the young intellect, to form correct tastes and judgments, to stimulate ambition in the right direction, to fire the heart with a deep love for the good, the beautiful, and the true, and to implant within the breasts of those who are to take our places, those high and holy purposes which lead not only to success in this world but to everlasting life and happiness in the world that is to come.

The reader will find many important subjects treated under general heads, as it has been impossible to give every subject that relates to Home life a separate chapter. But we have made it a family book, and trust that parents will find in it an aid, the young a guide, the old a comfort. We send it now on its missing, hoping and trusting that the design may be truly accomplished, and if it serves that end, the satisfaction of being useful will be the richest reward, and will fully compensate for the labor and time expended.

To give you a firmer idea of the breadth and scope of this beautiful and instructive Victorian book, I have furnished some helpful details below, starting with a summary of the various fascinating topics to which the book’s many essays are devoted. Further down the page, you can see some of the handsome engravings which adorn THE HOMES OF OUR COUNTRY.

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Contents Are:

CHAPTER ONE ~ HOME, ITS IMPORTANCE AND BLESSINGS: “Home, home, sweet home! * The home of childhood * The beautiful relationships of home * No word in the English language so full of mewing * The character of one\'s birthplace and its inﬂuence on after life * The oasis in the moral desert * Its force in society and morals * The ﬁrst effort of Christian missionaries in heathen lands is to establish the home * Napoleon\'s utterance * The characteristic of New England * The garden of affection * The sanctuary of a mother\'s love * The school of the strongest feelings and principles * Its power over wanderers * The scene in Paris * Home includes the sweetest thoughts of earth and heaven * The Moravian poet\'s description of home

CHAPTER TWO ~ HOME INFLUENCE: Who can measure it? * Its power on reason and conscience * The true home * The true ideal: Its inﬂuence greater than schools * The nucleus of national character * The saying of Burke * The danger of a wrong conception * What the family circle ought to be * How much depends upon it * No civilization equal to it * The bond of sacred union * What observation teaches * What others should do * When the inﬂuence of home begins * The mother the deity of infancy * The father the deity of childhood * The inﬂuence over mind and heart * The lawgivers of the children * The seminary of infancy; its importance * The greatest institution furnished by Providence for the education of man * The longing of theheart for home * The cheerlessness of the homeless soul * The domestic sanctuary, the Eden of earth

CHAPTER THREE ~ WHAT CONSTITUTES A HOME: A false idea of home * Home in its true sense * The poet\'s idea of what home is not, and what home is * The Christian home * Not dependent on riches * The enemies of home * What makes the family * The Providential care * The family is the primary school * The origin of this institution * Excision from home * Without a home * The attraction of home relations * Domestic inﬂuence penetrates the soul * The blessed retreat * The real constitution of home

CHAPTER FOUR ~ THE DIGNITY OF MOTHERHOOD: The most tender and endearing of all human appellations * The help-meet of man * A mother\'s dignity * Distinguished mothers * The great privilege of mothers * Immortality gives dignity to its subjects, and hence the exalted honor of a mother * The gradations from childhood to motherhood * A mother lives not for self * Writing with a wand of love upon the printless tablet * When a mother\'s inﬂuence begins * What wise men have said * Neglect * A good mother * Madame de Stael\'s wise remark * The importance of the early lessons * The responsibility of a mother illustrated * George Washington\'s mother * Byron\'s mother * History of John Newton * The diamond God has placed in a mother\'s hand.

CHAPTER FIVE ~ A MOTHER’S LOVE: Retrospection\'s chain * The instinct which pervades all animated nature * Her love is unappalled by danger and unhindered by difficulty * The beautiful picture * The foundation of maternal love * An instance of a\' mother\'s love * The bearings of a mother\'s love * A mother\'s love rewarded * Why it is given * The great end * Why it was implanted in woman\'s bosom

CHAPTER SIX ~ THE DUTIES OF A MOTHER: ‘When a mother\'s duties c0mmence * An infant the most helpless of living creatures * A mother\'s ﬁrst ministration * A mother\'s sacriﬁces * George Herbert\'s saying * John Randolph * Oliver Cromwell * Ary Scheﬁer\'s mother\'s advice * The mother\'s impulse * Benjamin West and his mother\'s kiss * The ﬁrst months of infancy * Doherty’s Description * The climax of happiness * The ﬁrst duty of every mother * A mother\'s instruction * Do not trust hirelings * The mother\'s wi1l * Deaf and dumb children * Kindness to animals * A good.story * Truth * “ My goodness grows weak.” * “ Tell her a story.\" * The dialect of love * A mother\'s awful responsibility

CHAPTER SEVEN ~ CORRECT TRAINING BY MOTHERS: The ﬁrst requisite * Madame Campan * The ﬁrst seven years of life * The husbandman * Mothers should be the early instructors * Tenderness of conscience * Stated reasons of instruction * The happier a child is, the better * The French lesson * Love of reading * The school boy on vacation * Poetry * Songs in the nursery * The power of vocal music * What a mother is training * What a mother can do * Not one is lost * God knows all

CHAPTER EIGHT ~ A MOTHER\'S JOY: Parents apt to be dejected * The rapture only a mother knows * The recompense day by day * The widow leaning on her son * The reunion above * Not lost but gone before * * A mother seeing herself living again in her children * True reward * The last words of Henry Clay * Mothers watch the development of your children * What your ﬁdelity may be by the blessing of God * Your voice will sound when your lips are done

CHAPTER NINE ~ THE FATHER, THE HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD: Father, the prophet, priest and king * The ofﬁcer who deserts his post * The natural right of fathers * The example of the father * An old minister\'s wise remarks * St. Paul\'s advice * The principles of a true home like those of Heaven * Father is the house-band * Father never free from anxiety * No critics in the world like children * A father\'s confession * The grand ideal of fatherhood * Whitﬁeld\'s remark * Your great charge * The awful picture of a wretched old man

CHAPTER TEN ~ A FATHER\'S RESPONSIBILITY: The nature of the relation * No release from duty * A clergyman\'s excuse * The four duties imposed by God * Why many hearts have been blasted * Honor the mother of a household * Consider your position * The great work * Where is father? * The great hope of reformation * Fathers lead the way

CHAPTER ELEVEN ~ FATHERS AT HOME: A sad fact * Fathers away most of the time * The wickedness of leaving wife and children alone when necessary * A most appropriate exercise * Good husbands by intention but bad by practice * Danger of preferring the bar * room, the lodge or club room to their own families * A too familiar picture * The father who delights in home * The joy that he experiences * The reward that he receives

CHAPTER TWELVE ~ BUDS OF PROMISE: The dictate of our nature * Elliot\'s custom * To love children is a graceful lineament in character * Madame de Maintenon\'s advice to the young Dauphiness * lntercourse with infancy is improving * Behold the construction of the infant\'s frame * Responsibility when a child is born * It is a physical being * It is a rational being * It is a moral being * It is an accountable being * It is an immortal being * It is a sinful being * It possesses a social nature * The mythology of ancient Greeks * What will insure success and happiness * The parents’ responsibility * A babe is a mother\'s anchor * Maternal love * Be careful of your inﬂuence over children.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN ~ LIFE’S SEED TIME: When the dawning intellect unfolds * By degrees the soil is prepared * Much depends upon the start * Right principles should be then inculcated * The design of the Creator * Suggestions to parents * A mother\'s insane ambition * Sympathy with children * Parental mistakes * Curiosity * * The poet\'s description

CHAPTER FOURTEEN ~ HOME EDUCATION: The great high school * Education * Just as the twig is bent * A thirst for knowledge, inherent * What a distinguished writer says * How much parents can do * The mother\'s duty * The best teacher * Good advice * l have too much to do, or the mother\'s excuse * A story of a New England mother * What Mrs. Ramsay did * A Christian mother\'s work * Out of the way * Sad stories

CHAPTER FIFTEEN ~ Y0UNG MEN – THE GLORY OF BEING A YOUNG MAN: A glorious sight * \\Vhat will he be? * Not a position, but that awaits him? * Not an office, but that will be ﬁlled by him ? * The coming man * Great destinies * Great responsibilities * The joyous thought * The call of the hour * What is committed to the care * The venerable fathers * For what God has formed you * The earnest question

CHAPTER SIXTEEN ~ STARTING RIGHT: Every thing depends on the stark * Every man must rely on himself * At the bottom of the hill * The marksman * The lawyer * The divine * The mechanic * The physician * How to attain success * The obstinate law * The gourd of Jonah * God needs not many tall cedars * There are but few needed like Moses, David, Newton, or Luther * Every age demands its peculiar style of men * The work of preparation going on * What is needed * The earnest thought Tht department of business little important * Men of will * Courage * Power

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN ~ AIMS AND PURPOSES: The highest prize * Aim high * You may be whatever you resolve to be * Alexander * Caesar * Paul * Luther * Howard * Washington * I will try * Energy * Faith in one‘s self * Self-reliance * Every man made for something * The cause of failure * The fault not in the stars, but in themselves * Where there’s a will there’s a way * What men have done * Julius Caesar * Suwarrow * Bulwer * Disraeli * Webster * Francis Wayland * Pluck * Washington

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN ~ CHARACTER: Meaning of the word * A man\'s whole being * lt must be earned * A plant which every one should cultivate * Confined to no station * You are to blame if you are despised * Moulded by a thousand inﬂuences * The two principles * Do not sigh for a lofty station out of reach * Great defects * A superiority of character * Satisfaction of self-respect * Success in the world depends on character * Eternal destiny hangs on character

CHAPTER NINETEEN ~ FALSE IDEAS OF GENIUS: Hard work * What work accomplishes * The poet\'s advice * Greatest results attained by simple means * Fortune not as blind as men are * Deﬁnitions of genius by Buffon, Foster, Newton * Industry and perseverance * What John Hunter said of himself * The widow\'s regret for her son * Step by step progress * What Sir Joshua Reynolds says * The great mistake * Sources of discouragement * Lady Montague\'s advice

CHAPTER TWENTY ~ LUCK: Fortune favors fools * Courage * Adapting the right means to the right end * The Poet\'s description * The place that luck holds in the human existence * Signs * Professor Davy * Lucky accidents * Dr. Johnson\'s description of Sheridan * The abused word * Micawbers of to-day * The weak man\'s complaint * Shakespeare\'s adage * The doctrine of chances * The lucky sixpence * Warming pans to the West Indies * The Edinburgh Review on success at the bar * Rothschild\'s regard of luck * Man, the child of opportunity * Strike while the iron is hot * Newton * Buffon * Cardinal Richelieu * Lord Nelson * De Quincy * Byron\'s vice * Napoleon * * How to rise superior to ill-fortune

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE ~ MANNERS; THE IMPORTANCE OF MANNERS: A man\'s bearing towards his fellows promotes or obstructs his advancement * Daily experience shows the power of civility * Emerson\'s saying * Hawthorne and Chesterfield * Manner marks internal impression * Account of a humorist * Story of the two Abolitionists * Politeness deﬁned * One of the Cardinal Laws * Dr.Johnson * Sheridan * * Not so often great acts as petty incivilities that are treasured up * What is better than a beautiful face * One great fault as a nation * The commentary of spittoons * What politeness consists in * What pleasing manners do for lawyers, doctors, merchants, and men in every walk of life * Dr. Mott\'s advice to his class * Examples of what good manners have done

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO ~ SEEKING A HELP-MEET: One of Nature\'s laws * Great difference between men and brutes * A kind provision of Providence * Source of domestic joys * The minds of both sexes are formed to each other * The advantages and disadvantages of the married state * The dark and bright side * Care and expenses * The objections * Where happiness dwells

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE ~ THE IMPORTANT STEP: How matrimony ought to be considered * What a man ought to consult * Things to be considered * Neetmok * Education * Caution * Victims of parental folly * Great mistakes * The reason of unhappiness of wedded life * Some good advice * Sense and temper * A true help * meet * Hasty engagements * Jeffrey\'s warning

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR ~ THE GREAT REQUISITE IN A WIFE: Instructions on the subject * Be not unequally yoked * Unity of purpose * What a true wife desires * How this want of union is manifested * Watt\'s two happy matches * The leading object in life must be the same * Union of purpose not attained in after life * An example * The result of this union of purpose * To obtain this requisite it is necessary to study character * The grand idea * Story of the late Premier of England

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE ~ BE YOURSELF: How God made each human being * Men must not be imitators * * Individuality * Selfhood * Alexander and Diogenes * Be what God made you * Originality is honored everywhere * Dr. Brandreth * Mason * Herring * Stuart * Bonncr * Opie * The call of the hour * Examples of success * Foolishness of depending on external advantages * The butterﬂy existence * The earnest soul * Perseverance * What biography teaches * Every man is the architect of hisown fortune * A wise instructor\'s advice

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX ~ YOUNG WOMEN ENTERING LIFE: Different training of young ladies from that of young men * After her schooling is over * The ﬁrst important era * The habits of the school-room are laid aside * How she must begin to think and act * She ﬁnds at ﬁrst little to do * Difference of a young man who ﬁnishes his collegiate course and enters upon his profession * Her learning is like an armory in time of peace * Castle building * Woman\'s love * High and holy * Her mission co-equal with man * The king of Sparta * Females who seem to contradict the intention of God * How little is known of sacriﬁces * Careful directions

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN ~ EMPLOYMENT OF TIME: Youth the grand time * There seems to be often little to occupy the time proﬁtably * Our capacities * How hours are spent * * How to live * The effect of sorrow * Take your capital into the mart of the world * A young lady\'s diary, showing how years are wasted * A brief probation * Golden sands * The sacred trust * Fleeting span * Words from Massillon.

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT ~ WHAT CAN I DO AT HOME: Opportunities * An example * Flowers in the sunshine * The monitress * Power of a sister at home * A sister\'s love * Not necessary to leave home to be useful * How a daughter can show gratitude * A subordinate mode of doing good * Neetmok * The oldest daughter * The remark of an admiring stranger * Examples

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE ~ THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS: A young lady\'s complaint * The bright side and the dark side * Arachne and Melissa * Nothing more deserving of attention than the art of happiness * * The direction of good sense is to the bright side * Cheerfulness is expected from the young * * Cheerful demeanor is particularly expected from young ladies * How it is gained * Objects of gratitude * Habit of discovering good qualities * Thinking no evil CHAPTER THIRTY ~ SOCIETY: Human family is formed for social life * Imitation * Society the great nurse * Solomon and St. Paul * The claims of society * Society not our circle * Benevolence and goodwill * Custom * Illustration of what is called good society * What is the result * lndividuality of character * Difference of opinion * Mental masquerade * Affability * Good sense * Good taste * Society\'s claims upon you and your purse * Justice before pride * Society\'s claims for time * What must not be sacriﬁced

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE ~ POLITENESS: The origin of true politeness * The ﬁrst necessity * An example of impoliteness * The criterion by which character is judged * First impressions * Effect of good manners * Their importance * How good manners are formed * Christian courtesy * The product of a kind nature * Thoughtfulness and consideration for others * The best guides * A loving disposition * Common sense

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO ~ DRESS: Woman\'s vanity and love of dress * Dr. Watts * Vanity of vanities * The desire for notice * The result of a proper education * The passion for praise * The origin of vanity * How incalculable mischief has been wrought * Ladies eminent for mental acquirement * The other extreme * Dress, a letter of recommendation * Directions * The loom of modesty * Woman\'s power of attraction lies not in dress, but in herself * How children should be dressed * Plainness and simplicity * The Frenchman\'s observation * The difference between Shakespeare and St. Paul\'s rule

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE ~ THE COMPANY OF A GENTLEMAN: The two extremes * Reserve an embarrassment * Good looks and good dress not a guarantee of good character * How to prevent unpleasant associates * What a young maiden is apt to forget * How to act in company *

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR ~ MATRIMONIAL HINTS: The longing for friends * The momentous act * Account that Dr. Johnson * Low motives * Position and money an example * The right motive in entering the marriage state * The necessity of mutual sacriﬁce * Danger of haste * t\\iarry in haste and repent at leisure * Qualities indispensable, and absolutely requisite * Consideration for the wife * Personal merit * Elevated conditions * Reputable standing * Fortune * Great riches

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE ~ WHOM NOT TO MARRY: Warnings beforehand necessary * D0 not marry a fop * Do not marry a spendthrift * Story of a beautiful girl who married a man of prodigal habits, who was brought to abject poverty, distress, and want * Do not marry a miser * Cultivate a liberal spirit and unite only to such * Circumstances that may be overlooked: such connections are a violation of good taste * Contrary to the dictates of nature * Habits * Bad effect of being without employment * Energy * * Do not marry a man of bad temper * Do not marry a skeptic * Do not marry a man of questionable morality * Profanity * Gambling * Intemperance * Do not marry any one who is not now what you wish he was

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX ~ THE YOUNG WIFE: The great change produced by a few solemn words * The home of childhood * Her family name * Great cares and august responsibilities * The most important era in a woman\'s life * The great desire of every true woman is to know how to act with propriety * The preparation of previous instruction * What both married and single state demand * Some of the new duties * Duty not an appalling word * The poet\'s advice * The helpmeet * Assistant * The Creator\'s gift * Father Taylor\'s eulogium * Her ﬁrst endeavor * The educator of her husband * The power of forming and reforming human character * The great future * Conduct and exan1ple * A good wife is the greatest blessing * The constant, dearest, truest friend.

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN ~ THE YOUNG HUSBAND: Lack of right views, plans, and purposes in entering conjugal life * The effect of circumstance * The trade, occupation, profession will likely determine his talents and character * No caste here * The possible ambition * The nobles and peasants of America * The question and answer * Not indolence but exertion * For what the Creator has formed men * The grand desideratum * What can be lost and gained * Something that every young man can do at the outset of matrimonial life * A man can be what he desires to be * Doherty\'s Description * The ﬁrst question after marriage * The opportunity * First of all usefulness, not happiness * The predilections of the wife not to be overlooked * Husband and wife one * Partners in trade * Consulting the wife\'s advantages * Value of woman\'s judgment * Something for the young husband to remember * The monotony of household care * The temptation of busy men * The division of the spheres * Communion of interest * Golden fruits.

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT ~ FAMILY: No subject of greater importance * Shown by the value of the interests guarded by it * Dr. Dwight the theologian\'s saying * The affectionate memorials * Joyful experience * Bereaved families * Scenes in Greenwood * More value than riches * The miseries ﬂowing from a violation of the family institution * Sad history of a family * The widow\'s daughter * Awful consequences * The Bible and the voice of prayer in the family * Effect of vice and skepticism * The serpent in the bosom like a friend in the family who would pollute the fountain * The family is the natural state of society * One of the most palpable duties of life * Neglect * A single individual but half an existence, merely * As the stars and ﬂowers * Honorable exceptions * The Grecian gauntlet * Tempting Providence * False standard * A millionaire * The reward of labor * Family support

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE ~ FAMILY DUTIES: A few special duties * How summed up in the Bible * Story of an Oriental lady * Filial next to religious duty * Parents to be honored, virtues brightened, and faults overlooked * The father of Archibald Tillotson * He is my father * She is my mother * Mother of Alexander * Honored by generous sacriﬁce * Example of Aeneas * Story of two brothers * The Chinese proverb * Washington\'s regard for his mother\'s feelings * A Polish Prince * Fraternal duties * Secular welfare of the family * The advantages of the patriarchial institution * The injunctions to provide for one\'s household * Duties of those not the head of the household * Make home an institution of learning * Daniel Webster * The aim of each member of this circle * A good nature * Genuine politeness * What it does * Attraction at the ﬁreside * Pleasures of home available to all * If homes are happy the race cannot be miserable * An only sister * The domestic altar * Silent voices only gone before * \" Death never separates.\" * The re-gathering

CHAPTER FORTY ~ OLD MAIDS: One abused class of women * No poet to celebrate their praise * Subject of jest and unfeeling remark * Large class * Good reasons for being old maids * ‘The comparative leisure aﬁorded * Great opportunities for usefulness * Some women who have greatly blessed mankind * Hannah More * Elizabeth Carter * Elizabeth Smith * Catharine Talbot * Jane Taylor * Maria Edgeworth * If Providence direct you alone * Walk fearlessly, bravely, fear not * Be not afraid of title old maids * You can ﬁnd plenty of enjoyment * Old age will not be solitary * The single state no\'diminution of beauties and utilities of female character * How much this class would be missed * The class that is owed by nephews and nieces, friends and orphans * Were every woman married, the effect * The class that supplies * Pass the most teachers, governesses, best assistants * The single woman an important element in social and private happiness * * How she can be all her life a most attractive personage * Her position in society * How she loses her attraction * Extreme sensitiveness * Fear of ridicule * Unmarried ladies and widows * What they have done for others * Must have courage to do what is right * Never let pleasure come before duty * Assist where you can * lf you have means, leisure and disposition, how much can be done * Change in public opinion * A thousand times better than unhappy married life * A million times, no * What to remember * Miss Muloch\'s saying

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE ~ OLD BACHELORS: All honor to the old maid * We cannot say a great deal for the man who refuses to marry * Some good reasons why some women do not marry * He has plenty of opportunities * He could have had a wife long ago * What he might have to give up * Reasonable exception * When justiﬁed * The moment his situation changes * Paul\'s advice * Young women in feeble health * Extreme povertv * Where the parties are fully agreed * John Bunyan and his wife * Supposed substitutes * The Divine intention * Neetmok * Duty and pleasure * Nothing which is not naturally inviting * Faults of old bachelors * Crustiness, selﬁshness, penurious ﬁdgety * Worse than a dozen old maids * The desperate agony to keep young * The rebuke of grand old John * Melancholy absurdity * An old bachelor\'s soliloquy * Another bachelor\'s declaration * How much happier had he a wife * What she would do * The dreams of the bachelor * Good advice to the old bachelor

CHAPTER FORTY-TWO ~ DIGNITY OF LABOR: Dignity in toil * All labor that tends to supply wants honestly is honorable * An admitted theory but repudiated practice * Many admit in fact, but act as if indolence was a privilege * Restriction on dignity to certain kind of labor * \'l‘oils obscure * Indolence oft is regarded as more respectable than some forms of industry * What the fashionable world has forofferden * Real reasoning * Brilliant in * justice * N o depreciation of wealth * Labor the law of the universe * The creator\'s law, necessity of life * What man must do * Nothing is provided ready * First construct, plant, sow * * 1ndependent wealth * Value of land dependent on labor * Gold and paper represent labor * The entire dependence on toil * The foundation on which human society rests * Consider the achievements of labor * Nothing too great * Laughs at difficulties * Labor a mighty magician * Men of toil * * Love of liberty * The man who refuses to labor * True dignity * Ail laborers noble and holy

CHAPTER FORTY-THREE ~ SUCCESS: Floating on the current * The bulk of mankind * Different objects * Getting on in the world * What some people think success is * The predicament * Carlyle\'s saying * Etching on to somebody or something * Who have the best chance in life * Worldly success the only successful thing * What intrinsic superiority may not do * Meanness of soul * The best guaranty for success * Galileo in the dungeon * The higher life * The true and noble heroes * The upper powers * The plaudits of the great world * How success is generally understood * What Longfellow says * The talent of success * What some deny * Competition * The race of life * The objects we pursue * How to estimate their value * The means not the ends constitute happiness * The mistake of mediocre men * The object desired, the pleasure and the torment of life * Success necessary to happiness * Degrees of success * Great men analyze the causes of excellence * Shelley * Mirabeau * Newton * The child of destiny * The small actual, the great possible * Youth is a burning ﬁrebrand or a stupeﬁed emptiness “that every man feels” * Unconsciousness of capacity * What the wise, active and energetic may expect * Mind a thing of progress * Success is making the possible actual * Different kinds of success * The pearl of great price * A clear conscience and a well-regulated mind

CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR ~ THE EVENTIDE OF LIFE: One remaining fact * The Spring and Summer past * Autumn advanced * Privileges of age * Deprivation * Charms * Usefulness * The temptations of age * The crown of glory * The bright and pleasing side of old age * Cheerful hours * Reﬂection * The blessings and promises of the gospel * Exhortation and example * The frequent question * Which is the happiest season in life * The wise answer of experience * The harvest is soon gathered * The cold bleak winds * The beckoning of the stars * \'l‘he night draws nigh * The disposition of the aged * Evening thoughts * Exercises of devotion * Spiritual conversation * The fruit of old age * Hidden life

CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE ~ CLOSING SCENES: What to remember on entering life * At best, what life is * Not easy to contemplate the end * The awful meaning * An irreparable sorrow * The law of moral connection and retribution * The bearing on the future * Preparation * The inevitable rupture * What cannot be forgotten * * The touch of sadness * The wide gap * Death through Christ, or Adam * Each man\'s work * Treasures of home life * One Home everywhere * The awful pallor steal * The assurance * The dread of disembodiment * Hopes and fears * No disembodied human spirit * clothed upon * The victor of death * * Before the throne of God * Immortal fellowship * Who have no fear of death * The triumphal song

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