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yer all a bunch of people making a round thing out of a bunch of flat planes
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Some excerpts from LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE
by Henry David Thoreau...
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not. One would think, from looking at literature, that this question had never disturbed a solitary individual's musings. Is it that men are too much disgisted with their experience to speak of it?
Does Wisdom work in a tread-mill? or does she teach how to succeed by her example? Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life? Is she merely the miller who grinds the finest logic?
That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise!
It makes God to be a moneyed gentleman who scatters a handful of pennies in order to see mankind scramble for them! The world's raffle! A subsistence in the domains of Nature a thing to be raffled for!
And have all the precepts in all the Bibles taught men only this? and is the last and most admirable invention of the human race only an improved muck-rake?
... I had in my mind's eye, all night, the numerous valleys, with their streams, all cut up with foul pits, from ten to one hundred feet deep, and half a dozen feet across, as close as they can be dug, and partly filled with water,-the locality to which men furiously rush to prove for their fortunes,-uncertain where they shall break ground,-not knowing but the gold is under their camp itself,-sometimes digging one hundred and sixty feet before they strike the vein, or then missing it by a foot,-turned into demons, and regardless of each other's rights, in their thirst for riches,-whole valleys, for thirty miles, suddenly honeycombed by the pits of the miners, so that even hundreds are drowned in them,-standing in water, and covered with mud and clay, they work night and day, dying of exposure and disease.
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