WORK AND LEISURE.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2176, 20 June 1890, Page 5

WORK AND LEISURE.

The first object of every man who h«s to depend upon bis own exertions must needs be to provide for hia daily wants. This is a high and important office ; it deserves his utmost attention ; it includes some of his most sacred duties, both to himself, hiskindrsd, and his country, and although in performing his task he is only influenced by a regard to his own interest or by his necessities, yet it is an employment which renders him truly the best benefactor of the community he belongs to. All our pursuits must give way to tbie. The hours which he devotes to learning must be after he has done his work. His independence, without which he is not fit to be called a man, requires, first of all, thai he should have insured for himself and tbope dependent on him a comfortable subsistence before he can have a right to taete any indul gence, either of his senses or of bis mind ; and the more he lrarns the greater the progress he ma <?s in tbe sciences, the more will he value that independence, and the more he will prize the industry, the habits of regular labour, whereby he is enabled to secure bo prime a blessing. — Lord Brougham.