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'May we not make the most of self, yet not for self?" He laid his hand upon St. Pierre's shoulder. "And who sent Claude hence if not his unselfish father?" "I was big fool," said St. Pierre, whittling on. "Nay, wise! Discovering the great rule of civilize-ation. Every man not for self, but for every other!" The swamper disclaimed the generous imputation with a shake of the head.
There had been a time when he could be idle and whittle, but that time was gone by; that was at Grande Pointe; and now for his son for Claude to become a lounger in tavern quarters Claude had not announced himself to Vermilionville as a surveyor, or as any thing Claude to be a hater of honest labor was this what Bonaventure called civilize-ation?
Thou heardest it, Maximian Roussel! Not from me, but from the gentleman himself! Forty, sometimes fifty! Such the march, the forward march of civilize-ation!" His words were cut short by the unearthly neigh of the engine. Sidonie smote herself backward against her husband. "Nay, Sidonie, fear thou nothing! Remember, dear Sidonie, thy promise of self-control! Stand boldly still, St.
Behole! behole two thing' in the worl', where all is giving and getting, two thing', contrary, yet resem'ling! 'Tis the left han' alas, alas! giving only to get; and the right, blessed of God, getting only to give! How much resem'ling, yet how contrary! The one han' of all strife; the other of all peace. And oh! dear friend, there are those who call the one civilize-ation, and the other religion.
Civilize-ation? Religion? They are one! They are body and soul! I care not what religion the priest teach you; in God's religion is comprise' the total mécanique of civilize-ation. We are all in it; you, me, Claude, Sidonie; all in it! Each and every at his task, however high, however low, working not to get, but to give, and not to give only to his own li'l' crowd, but to all, to all!"
Claude!" he cried to the youngest of the group, "now shall you behold what I have told you that vast am-azement of civilize-ation anni-high-lating space and also time at the tune of twenty miles the hour!" He wheeled upon the planter "Sir, do I exaggerate?" "Forty miles," replied the planter; "sometimes fifty." "Friends, confirmated! more than twicefold confirmated. Forty, sometimes fifty!
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