Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — How Work Helps. [ARTICLE]

How Work Helps.

Count yourself among the blest If you can work, and work hard. Work has specific healing for your trouble, although on other grounds I am its disciple—a pilgrim to its shrine. I had always liked my two hands inordinately for what they could do, writes Margaret Baldwin, in the Atlantic, but when, long ago, I learned how intimately and fundamentally the hands had had to do in primal ages with the evolution of the brain of earliesl: hopao, when he yet struggled with his eoliths and his unperfected thumbs, I reverenced them anew. The power of the hand visibly to recreate the mental conception of a Raphael and a Praxiteles is indefinable and exquisite. The hands hold the sublimity of the spirit to the power of the flesh.