Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1885 — The Habit of Haste. [ARTICLE]

The Habit of Haste.

The London Lancet speaks a proper word on “the habit of haste.” It is truly a habit we have fallen into in our large cities to fill every office and perform every service with the nervous energy of one driven to death. Our wealthy merchants of an earlier generation and our successful pastors of long ago accomplished the same work that we do, but with some degree of calmness and deliberation. Daniel Lewis, M. D., writing in the Pulpit Treasury, notes this needless and nervous hurry characterizing the times as a main cause of the prevalent wakefulness of active minds. To sleep more easily at night we must work more judiciously during the day .—Chicago Standard.