Cast Down Your Buckets

Not only this, but the opportunity afforded here will awaken us to a new era of industrial progress.  Ignorant and inexperience, it is not strange that in the first years of our life, we began at the top, not the bottom, that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was not sought that real estate or industrial skill, that the political convention, of some teaching, had more attractions than starting or dairy farm or truck garden.