Labor, iron labor, makes the scholar, says Emerson.
Labor, iron labor, gave Tyndall the faculty that, made him intelligible
and interesting to the young, and the right to preside at a meeting of
Humboldts.
But there is pride of intellect as well as pride of riches, and none
shows this pride as do the writers on political economy who have made it
the "dismal science," instead of having made it the A, B, C of our
mental furniture, as it should be with the people of a republic.
Making a good use of our means in our home and business affairs is good
economics.
Making a poor use of them is bad economics.
That is all there is to this word, whether it is our private affairs or
those of the nation that are being considered.
If we live up to our laws, and yet want and privation exist while there
is more than sufficient for all, then the fault must, be in those laws.
Making a scapegoat of the foreigner for those conditions because he will
not buy our wheat, or use a metal that we have an overplus of, places us
side by side with the witch-burner of old. We are just as ignorant in
one way, as he was in another.
At his door who has been writing on this subject does the blame of this
universal ignorance of it belong.
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