more seductive, or of wider usefulness in life than this.

But, furthermore, earth of her own will[15] gives lessons in justice
and uprightness to all who can understand her meaning, since the
nobler the service of devotion rendered, the ampler the riches of her
recompense.[16] One day, perchance, these pupils of hers, whose
conversation in past times was in husbandry,[17] shall, by reason of
the multitude of invading armies, be ousted from their labours. The
work of their hands may indeed be snatched from them, but they were
brought up in stout and manly fashion. They stand, each one of them,
in body and soul equipped; and, save God himself shall hinder them,
they will march into the territory of those their human hinderers, and
take from them the wherewithal to support their lives. Since often
enough in war it is surer and safer to quest for food with sword and
buckler than with all the instruments of husbandry.

[15] Reading {thelousa}, vulg., or if after Cobet, {theos ousa},
transl. "by sanction of her divinity." With {thelousa} Holden
aptly compares Virgil's "volentia rura," "Georg." ii. 500.

[16] "That is, her 'lex talionis.'"

[17] "Engaged long time in husbandry."

But there is yet another lesson to be learnt in the public shool of
husbandry[18]--the lesson of mutual assistance. "Shoulder to shoulder"
must we march to meet the invader;[19] "shoulder to shoulder" stand to
compass the tillage of the soil. Therefore it is that the husbandman,
who means to win in his avocation, must see that he creates enthusiasm
in his workpeople and a spirit of ready obedience; which is just what