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eAn Address

place does not improve the situation. In many
places the standard of work falls almost below
the level of the wages. Nothing more amazes
our active colonials than to see three or four men
occupied at a piece of work that any one of themselves
 would have handled singly.
On the other hand, the countryman who loves
his home is in some respects better off than any
townsman can be; for of all the pleasures of life
the mere pleasure of healthy living is the only
true foundation ; and above all that we eat and
drink, fresh air is the first necessary food. A man
may well say that he would exchange nothing for
these, Before we leave it, let us make out the
best case for Rousseau’s simple life ; for the man
who from sunrise to sunset is with nature, who
witnesses and waits on all the variations of the
seasons, and sees the natural beauty of the earth
as God made it, and is engaged on the most indispensable
 of all human industries. And let any
one ask himself where at any moment he would
most wish to be: would it be in this lecture-room,
or in a theatre or a museum or music-hall, or in
a hot stuffy crowd in front of the ¢ movies’?