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Updated: May 11, 2025
To watch the transformation of a quiet back-country New England village into the life-centre of a great and far-reaching industry, is in itself a liberal education, not only in economics, but in inherited characteristics of the human race.
"Do you mean beyond your skill?" suggested the Coroner. "Skill?" retorted the witness, with a queer, twisting grimace. "Beyond my understanding! I am a quick observer I saw within a few seconds that here was a man who had literally been struck down in the very flush of life as if well, to put it plainly, as if some extraordinary power had laid a blasting finger on the very life-centre within him.
A leisurely yet steady traffic in rural produce therefore passed along its streets, because it was the life-centre, the heart, of its own countryside; and the village labourer, going in and out upon his town tasks, or even working all day in some secluded yard behind the street, still found a sort of homeliness in the materials he handled, and was in touch with the ideas and purposes of his employer.
Last, but not least, the translucent tissues, the semi-transparent skin, barely veiling the pulsating mesh of myriad blood-vessels, is a superb color index, painting in vivid tints "yellow, and ashy pale, and hectic red" the living, ever changing, moving picture of the vigor of the life-centre, the blood-pump, and the richness of its crimson stream.
In every great surge forward to new life, we can trace back the radiance to such a single point of light; the transfiguration of an individual soul. Thus Christ's communion with His Father was the life-centre, the point of contact with Eternity, whence radiated the joy and power of the primitive Christian flock: the classic example of a corporate spiritual life.
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