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From: Kesha <be...@ea...> - 2009-08-16 21:08:22
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High breeding will come reversion. From pedigrees and plumed hats and ruffled shirts come not men, but pygmies--things which in the real fight of life are but mice to the eagles which have come up from the soil with the grit of it in their craws and the strength of it in their talons. We stop in wonder--balked. Then we see that we cannot breed men--they are born; not in castles, but in cabins. And why in cabins? For therein must be the solution. And the solution is plain: It is work--work that does it. We cannot breed men unless work--achievement--goes with it. From the loins of great horses come greater horses; for the pedigree of work--achievement--is there. Unlike man, the race-horse is kept from degeneracy by work. Each colt that comes must add achievement to pedigree when he faces the starter, or he goes to the shambles or the surgeon. Why may not man learn this simple lesson--the lesson of work--of pedigree, but the pedigree of achievement? The son who would surpass his father must do more than his father did. Two generations of idleness will beget nonentities, and three, degenerates. The preacher, the philosopher, the poet, the ruler--it matters not what his name--he who first solves the problem of how to keep mankind achieving will solve the problem of humanity. And now to Helen Conway for the first time in her life this simple thing was happening--she was working--she was earning--she was supporting herself and Lily and her father. Not only that, but gradually she was learning to know what the love of one like Clay meant--unselfish, devoted, true. If to |