Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. / A Collection of Speeches and Messages

ARY 4

. The past generation was one of religious c

n free from blame. In this development some men have seemed to prosper beyond the measure of their servic

be trusted, that business activity is not moral and the whole system is to be condemned; and the other, that employment, that work, is a curse to man, and that working hours ought to be as sh

s names. We learn of the stone age, the bronze, and the iron age. We can see the different steps in the growth of the forms of government; how an

from the stone age to the iron age and no nation ever passed directly from depotism to democracy. Each advance has b

erce, of great industrial enterprise. It is o

e seed of democracy lay in a perfected despotism. The hope of to-morrow lies in the development of the instruments of to-day. The prospect of advance lies in maintaining those conditions which have stim

ladder by wh

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o the summit r

ffort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse, it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the meas

that an awakened conscience has outlawed commercial standards that were false or low and that an awakened humanity

wrong, that commerce is only selfishness, and that our citizens, holding the hope of all that America means, are living in industrial slavery. I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate and sus