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New England found herself, in consequence, in great and widespread public distress, and her large capital, erstwhile engaged in commercial ventures at vast profit, became suddenly idle and non-productive. But it is an ill wind which blows no good. So it was in the case of New England at this period.
With the first stroke of the axe, success is not less sure than in his last endeavor. Success of the right kind is a scientific achievement. The line has not yet been drawn, and I doubt whether it ever can be drawn, between productive and non-productive labor.
But the skill of our hands and the power of our intellects grow and increase and yield larger and larger returns the more they are called upon to produce. The man of bone and muscle the restless, active, pioneering, constructing man would do well to consider these things before determining upon his vocation, and especially before entering upon any kind of non-productive work.
Usury makes it possible for many to live upon incomes from their property. They are not classed, nor do they class themselves, among those who are personally productive. This makes it necessary for the poor, those who have no property, to produce more in order to house and clothe and feed the community. But those non-productive persons are consumers and are the most active consumers.
Here also the arbitrary and non-productive style of teaching ran strongly counter to me at every step. Singing was taught from figures. Reading was taught from Pestalozzi's well-known "A.B.C." All this lay dark within me, its value unrecognised even by myself. But my intellectual position tended to become more settled by passing through these experiences.
I feel sure Alick meant no irreverence; indeed, I know that his mind was not of a speculative, negative cast, and he would on no account have missed going to church on Christmas Day, Easter Sunday, and "Whissuntide." But he had a general impression that public worship and religious ceremonies, like other non-productive employments, were intended for people who had leisure.
He had given her a garbled explanation of his illness, stated that he was going to work now and proposed to come and see her. He did his best to avoid observation, however, for he dreaded explaining the reason of his non-productive condition. Miriam Finch was almost glad that he had failed, since he had treated her so badly.
Opposed in many of their most essential conditions to the capable men who are of primary importance in the social body, is the great and growing variety of non-productive but active men who are engaged in more or less necessary operations of organization, promotion, advertisement, and trade.
"The soils of these tracts are sandy and not naturally so rich and fertile as the more heavy clay soils of the limestone, the red shale, and the marl districts of the State, but they are not so sandy and so coarse-grained as to be non-productive, like some of the pineland areas.
Can you take, out of an average income of $184 for four persons, $47.25 more than one-fourth to pay, together with the other expenses of the State, the salaries of the non-productive laborers? And if you cannot, if you can neither pay your expenses nor reduce them, what do you want? of what do you complain?
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