Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Vol. 28

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Excerpt from Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Vol. 28: January to June, Inclusive, 1853A modern social philosopher has said, and said (in a sense) truly, that wealth is as necessary to the maturity of human faculties as sunshine to the ripening of a peach but God sends shower to the fruit as well as sun shine, and blesses the sweet uses of adversity. Experience shows that warm houses and soft clothing may give delicacy and grace and symmetry, but the lumberer's but and the icy toil of the fisherman educate a certain gnarled and ungraceful vigor, notwithstanding - and for these also there is something to be said.I have talked with a man owning one half a railroad, but I did not find him appearing stronger or wiser or happier than I, no more well off, perhaps less so, he at least was chie¿y anxious to get richer, while I was not. There he stood beside his railroad, the iron lines stretched away over the soil, but there was no iron in his moral purposes, the steam of his engines rose up to heaven, but guided no aspirations of his thither, all his locomotives had not availed to take him to the city of God any faster, in that direction the race was not to the swift nor the battle to the strong.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.