Our Philadelphia . and women shouldhave danced at Brussels on the eve of Waterloo. Andnewspaper-making was one only of Philadelphias in-numerable industries. That thought gave me the scale ofthe labour that goes to keep the machinery of life running. V Of some of the other industries I got to know a Uncle who, as I have said, was a man of ideas andwho had his fair proportion of Philadelphia energy, in-cluded among his many interests the subject of deplored existing systems and methods. My beliefis that the systems and methods might be of the best andeducation would still
Our Philadelphia . and women shouldhave danced at Brussels on the eve of Waterloo. Andnewspaper-making was one only of Philadelphias in-numerable industries. That thought gave me the scale ofthe labour that goes to keep the machinery of life running. V Of some of the other industries I got to know a Uncle who, as I have said, was a man of ideas andwho had his fair proportion of Philadelphia energy, in-cluded among his many interests the subject of deplored existing systems and methods. My beliefis that the systems and methods might be of the best andeducation would still be a mistake, vulgarizing the multi-tude to whom it does not belong and encouraging in thema prejudice against honest work. My Uncle did not thinkas I do,—that I do not think now as he did frightens me asa disloyalty to his memory. But he could not overlook thedistaste for manual work that had grown out of too muchattention to books and as he never let his theories exhaust > ?/yy V 3 . oca -.^^•^ <. r. A i AHw*-, ai !/? / -M J5 : -0 •. s-^ ,^ ^f^l -nr-v -.^^>;/?!,:: ?^, ^ * l^^i* ^^v iir J*^^ <^^ •^ ^
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