Excerpt from The Monitor: A Treatise of Many of the Leading Topics of the Day; Information Regarding Home and Political Economy; Causes of Money Panics and Depressions in Business; Causes of the Evils Existing in Politics to-Day; The Necessity of a New Political Party
Now, in order to properly understand this, just recall some facts of the early history of the human race and compare it with our present condition. It has been accomplished by means of our seminaries, colleges and churches; by means of acquiring knowledge, and adding knowledge to knowledge, just like the placing of one brick upon another in the building of a house - one imparts and the other retains.
This will apply to the young man, whose condition is similar to that of the captain of a ship. He must study his chart, or else go to the expense of having a pilot, in order to be able to ascertain where all the shoals and rocks are, in order that he may make a safe run.
The purpose of writing this booklet is to develop in the minds of the readers, the great necessity of a change in our social customs; of making the environments adapted to the needs and requirements of the people, in order that they may obtain more pleasure and comfort.
We’are all striving to reach this condition, and the writer has acquired certain knowledge during three score years, through force of circumstances, which led him through the various conditions of life, and have naturally enabled him to see the practical side of things, and the need of the require ments necessary to obtain the greatest enjoyment.
While I have not been reduced in the social scale of life and cannot speak from my own experience with the bitter cup, the sowing of wild oats and the reaping of a large crop, yet, having been in business, I travelled for many years from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Maine to Florida, and having been endowed with a sense of keen observation, I procured considerable information, and thought that by imparting such knowledge, it would be helpful to those who have not had the opportunity of acquiring it.
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