Excerpt from An Essay on Production, Money and Government Reader, in the present essay I have, in the briefest way, attempted to draw attention to some of the greatest principles of human life, and I have undertaken to show the necessary relation which is designed to exist between the functions and duty of man and certain laws of nature, which have been since the beginning of time. Life, with its aims and purposes, appears to me as gathering its results into a profitless and puny issue. The individual seems lost in mankind. Chains have been riveted out of material transactions, binding him hand and foot. It is held to be a virtue to labor to the exclusion of all thought and human enjoyment in obtaining the present mere material necessities, and to provide for repose in the decline of life. The bounding and generous ideality of youth is frowned down. The earnest desire for wisdom and understanding of manhood's prime is frozen in the bud, that no exalted idea may interfere in the endeavor to obtain an imaginary and uncertain repose in after life - a period at which man, whose mind has been devoted to mere pecuniary gain, is past usefulness to God, the world or himself. The principles of life which I advance will, if acted upon, totally and absolutely reverse much that now holds, and ensure a degree of easiness in all life's pursuits, that will warrant the discovery and application of many Laws of Nature to man's well-being, now perfectly unknown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.