The 'tendency to persevere,' to persist in spite of hindrances, discouragements and 'impossibilities,' that which distinguishes the Species Man from the Genus Ape. Month-long contracts, and Exeter-Hall purblindness. A practical manufacturing Quaker's care for his workmen. Blessing of permanent Contract: Permanence in all things, at the earliest possible moment, and to the latest possible. Vagrant Sam-Slicks. The wealth of a man the number of things he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by. The Worker's _interest_ in the enterprise with which he is connected. How to reconcile Despotism with Freedom. Chap. VI. _The Landed_ A man with fifty, with five hundred, with a thousand pounds a day, given him freely, without condition at all, might be a rather strong Worker: The sad reality, very ominous to look at. Will he awaken, be alive again; or is this death-fit very death?--Goeth's Duke of Weimar. Doom of Idleness. To sit idle aloft, like absurd Epicurus'-gods, a poor life for a man. Independence 'lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye:' Rejection of sham Superiors, the needful preparation for obedience to _real_ Superiors. Chap. VII _The gifted_ Tumultuous anarchy calmed by noble effort into fruitful sovereignty. Mammon, like Fire, the usefulest of servants, if the frightfulest of masters. Souls to whom the omnipotent guinea is, on the whole, an impotent guinea: Not a May-game is this man's life; but a battle and stern pilgrimage: God's justice, human Nobleness, Veracity and Mercy, the essence of his very being. What a man of Genius is. The Highest 'Man of Genius.' Genius, the clearer presence of God Most High in a man. Of intrinsic Valetism you cannot, with whole Parliaments to help you, make a heroism. Chap. VIII. _The Didactic_ One preacher who does preach with effect, and gradually persuade all persons. Repentant Captains of Industry: A Chactaw Fighter becomes a Christian Fighter. Doomsday in the afternoon. The 'Christianity' that cannot get on without a minimum of Four- thousand-five-hundred, will give place to something better that can. Beautiful to see the brutish empire of Mammon cracking everywhere: A strange, chill, almost ghastly dayspring in Yankeeland itself. Here as there, Light is coming into the world. Whoso believes, let him begin to fulfil: 'Impossible,' where Truth and Mercy and the everlasting Voice of Nature order, can have no place in the brave man's dictionary. Not on Ilion's or Latium's plains; on far other plains and places henceforth can noble deeds be done. The last Partridge of England shot and ended: Aristocracies with beards on their chins. O, it is great, and there is no other greatness: To make some nook of god's Creation a little fruitfuler; to make some human hearts a little wiser, manfuler, happier: It is work for a God! End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Past and Present, by Thomas Carlyle