the Irresistible Cupidity of their Governments--Burdens of Immense
Riches in an Active Land Like This--The Shocking Imbecility of False
Poverty--"Appearances"--Popular Errors as to Servants--Big Houses--Story
of the Happy Man. Page 300.


Facts About Progress.

Progress the Stride of God--The Field-Hand in 1350--One hundred and
Twelve Hours' Labor for a Bushel of Wheat--The same Laborer in 1550, in
1675, and in 1795--Seventy Hours for a Bushel of Wheat--The Same Laborer
To-day--Twenty Hours for the Bushel of Wheat--The Children of the
Laborer who Came to America--Seven or Eight Hours for a Bushel of Wheat.
Page 311.


Failure in Life.

Lightning Is More Apt To hit a Scrag than a Tree Which has Never Been
Riven--The Scrags in Society--The Loadstone of Failure at the Foot of
the Scrag--The Lesson to be Derived from Hopeless Failure in
Others--Sorrows March in Battalions, not as Single Spies. Page 321.


Gains and Brains.

The Man of Success--Eggs Trying to Dance with Stones--Trying to Draw the
Prize in a Lottery Without any Ticket--Dray Horses' Honest Belief that
the Earth Moves Backward under the Racer's Feet, He Being So Lucky--The
Heavy End of the Lifting--How Fortune Tellers Make Their Money--Great