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Social Problems And Their Peaceful Solution.

m akes the article he tenderly guarded from the evils of overwork , whilst the seller of it must be up early and late , not to meet a necessity or suit a real convenience , hut only to humour the foolish caprice and to foster the indifferent carelessness of the purchaser ? Depend upon it that more

real business would be done in the shorter time allotted to it , and would prove as profitable to the master , as beneficial to the servant , for short hours promote a rapid business-like way of getting through work , and are thusin the long runas conducive

, , to the interest of the employer as they are to the health of the employed . In the second place there is another consideration why the whole of a man ' s working hours should not be passed behind

the counter or m the confines of the shop , dawdling through an amount of work that would be far better done if compressed into some hours less time ; namely , if a man be thus occupied from the moment of rising , to the moment of retiring to rest , where is an opportunity afforded him for

the cultivation of his mental faculties ? Where his time for recreation 1 Granted , for a moment , that the workman is regarded as the mere machine of his employer . Granted that he must squeeze out of his machine all the work he

can , yet if the machine is to run properly it must have oil and sometimes repair . So , too , if the man is to work well he must have his times of rest , and his hours of recreation - .

" All work and no play , Makes Jack a dull boy !" Listen to the weary soul , sighing out her very life in despairing slavery" Oh , but to breathe the breath

Of the cowslip and primrose sweet—With the sky above my head , And the grass beneath my feet , For only one short hour , To feel as I used to feel , Before I knew the woes of want ,

And the walk that costs a meal ! Oh , but for one short hour ! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for love or hope , But only time for grief I

A little weeping would ease my heart , But iu their briny bed My tears must stop , for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! " And say , gentle reader , should this be so .

Listen ! yet once more , to her appeal : " Oh , men , with sisters dear ! Oh , men , with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you ' re wearing out , But human creatures' lives Stitch—Sti tch—Stitch , In poverty , hunger , and dirt , Sewing at once , with a double thread , A shroud as well as a shirt .

But why do I talk of death ? That phantom of grisly bone , I hardly fear his terrible shape , It seems so like my own—It seems so like my own , Because of the fasts I keep ^ Oh , God ! that bread should be so dear , And flesh and blood so cheap . "

And say , shall this be so . So much then for the moral force brought to bear by the public ; now for the question as between masters and men . Every man , it is true , is in a certain sense a machine , but then this only holds good in the same way of the employed that it does of the

employer , when they are together concerned in the production of wealth . Both are equally men , both have souls as well as bodies alike . And now , how does the wise man direct a master to treat the servant that does his duty 1

" If thou have a servant , let him be unto thee as thyself set hini to work as is fit for him but be not excessive towards any . . . . . Let thy soul love a good servant , and defraud him not of liberty . "

Let not masters , then , be too exacting ; nor let the public , for that is the gist of the matter , drive them to be so . Give fair day ' s wage for a fair day's work , expecting , in return , a full day ' s work for a full day ' s wage . Fix a fair proportion of the day for work , and insist that during this portion it shall indeed he work . Then give up the remainder to improvement of mind and recreation of body . Found

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Untitled Article 1
TO OUR READERS. Article 2
INDEX. Article 4
Monthly Masonic Summary. Article 7
SONNET. Article 7
A PCEAN. Article 8
SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND THEIR PEACEFUL SOLUTION. Article 10
THE BROKEN TESSERA. Article 13
THE WOMEN OF OUR TIME. Article 14
A WORD FOR OUR BOYS. Article 17
SONNET. Article 19
TRIADS IN MASONRY. Article 19
NOTES ON THE OLD MINUTE BOOKS OF THE BRITISH UNION LODGE, No. 114, IPSWICH. A.D. 1762. Article 20
AN ITALIAN COUNT. Article 24
WHISTLE DOWN THE BRAKES. Article 28
ZOROASTRIANISM AND FREEMASONRY. Article 28
THE OLD FISHER'S TALE. Article 32
FAIRY TALES UTILISED FOR, THE NEW GENERATION. Article 32
SPRING. Article 35
THE EDUCATION OF SOCIETY. Article 35
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY. Article 37
Untitled Article 41
Our Archaeological Corner. Article 42
THE TROAD. Article 43
A STRICKEN HEART. Article 47
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND ART. Article 47
THE NEW SCHOOL DIRECTOR. Article 49
REVIEW. Article 50
MASONIC CYCLOPAEDIA. Article 54
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Social Problems And Their Peaceful Solution.

m akes the article he tenderly guarded from the evils of overwork , whilst the seller of it must be up early and late , not to meet a necessity or suit a real convenience , hut only to humour the foolish caprice and to foster the indifferent carelessness of the purchaser ? Depend upon it that more

real business would be done in the shorter time allotted to it , and would prove as profitable to the master , as beneficial to the servant , for short hours promote a rapid business-like way of getting through work , and are thusin the long runas conducive

, , to the interest of the employer as they are to the health of the employed . In the second place there is another consideration why the whole of a man ' s working hours should not be passed behind

the counter or m the confines of the shop , dawdling through an amount of work that would be far better done if compressed into some hours less time ; namely , if a man be thus occupied from the moment of rising , to the moment of retiring to rest , where is an opportunity afforded him for

the cultivation of his mental faculties ? Where his time for recreation 1 Granted , for a moment , that the workman is regarded as the mere machine of his employer . Granted that he must squeeze out of his machine all the work he

can , yet if the machine is to run properly it must have oil and sometimes repair . So , too , if the man is to work well he must have his times of rest , and his hours of recreation - .

" All work and no play , Makes Jack a dull boy !" Listen to the weary soul , sighing out her very life in despairing slavery" Oh , but to breathe the breath

Of the cowslip and primrose sweet—With the sky above my head , And the grass beneath my feet , For only one short hour , To feel as I used to feel , Before I knew the woes of want ,

And the walk that costs a meal ! Oh , but for one short hour ! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for love or hope , But only time for grief I

A little weeping would ease my heart , But iu their briny bed My tears must stop , for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! " And say , gentle reader , should this be so .

Listen ! yet once more , to her appeal : " Oh , men , with sisters dear ! Oh , men , with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you ' re wearing out , But human creatures' lives Stitch—Sti tch—Stitch , In poverty , hunger , and dirt , Sewing at once , with a double thread , A shroud as well as a shirt .

But why do I talk of death ? That phantom of grisly bone , I hardly fear his terrible shape , It seems so like my own—It seems so like my own , Because of the fasts I keep ^ Oh , God ! that bread should be so dear , And flesh and blood so cheap . "

And say , shall this be so . So much then for the moral force brought to bear by the public ; now for the question as between masters and men . Every man , it is true , is in a certain sense a machine , but then this only holds good in the same way of the employed that it does of the

employer , when they are together concerned in the production of wealth . Both are equally men , both have souls as well as bodies alike . And now , how does the wise man direct a master to treat the servant that does his duty 1

" If thou have a servant , let him be unto thee as thyself set hini to work as is fit for him but be not excessive towards any . . . . . Let thy soul love a good servant , and defraud him not of liberty . "

Let not masters , then , be too exacting ; nor let the public , for that is the gist of the matter , drive them to be so . Give fair day ' s wage for a fair day's work , expecting , in return , a full day ' s work for a full day ' s wage . Fix a fair proportion of the day for work , and insist that during this portion it shall indeed he work . Then give up the remainder to improvement of mind and recreation of body . Found

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