the ranks of the unemployed should continue to swell, for those who scamp their work to-day will, another day, in the hour of deep necessity, look and ask for work in vain.
The law of “the survival of the fittest” is not based on cruelty, it is based on justice; it is one aspect of that divine equity which everywhere prevails. Vice is “beaten with many stripes”; if it were not so, how could virtue be developed? The thoughtless and lazy can- not take precedence of, or stand equally with, the thoughtful and industrious. A friend of mine tells me that his father gave all his children the following piece of advice:
“Whatever your future work may be, put your whole mind upon it and do it thoroughly; you need then have no fear as to your welfare, for there are so many who are
