The Dignity of Labor

In our previous article we pointed out that men through the ages have pondered upon and struggled with the question of the basic motive and incentive to labor. Here the happy wit will interject that he has the problem completely solved: He labors for the cash. That is simple enough. To this we could counter with the lame witticism that he can hardly write a sellable book on that theme, whereas men will continue writing books on some aspect of that problem and collecting royalties. And indeed,...