CARLYLE ON WORK.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 27, 26 November 1878, Page 3

CARLYLE ON WORK.

I Says Carl yle : — Blessed is lie who j has iound his work ; let him ask no other blessodness. He has a work, a life purpose ; he has found it, and will follow it ! Howi as a free flow* j ing channel, dug and torn by noble i force through the sour mud-swamp of one's existence, like an ever deepening river there, it runs and Hows ; draining off the sour, festering water gradually from the root of the remotest grass blade ; making, instoad of the pestilential swamp, a fruitful meadow with its clear flowing stream. I low blessed for the meadow itself, lot the stream and its value be great or small ! Labor is life ; from the inmost heart of the worker rises the God given force, the sacred celestial life essence ; from the inmost heart awakens him to all nobleness, to all knowledge, self-knowledge, andmuch else, so soon as work fitly begins. Knowledge! cleave thou unto that ; Nature accredits, says yoa to that. Properly thou hast no other knowlege but what thou hast got by working ; thb rest is yet all an hypothesis of knowledge ; a thing to bo argued j of in schools ; a thing floating in the | clouds, in endless logic vortices, till we will try it and fix it. Doubt, of whatever kind can be ended by action alone.