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mand that our home equipments be useful and beautiful,
substantial and good.
            sWe are coming to see that the
simple is the best, and that the end of life is not only to
praise our Maker, but so to live that our life shall not
have been erased as we walk through earth. We hardly
know how to live. We know something of microscopic
plants, of cellular pathology and of the psychic life. We
know how to feed a horse and a dog, but we, paragons
of wisdom, do not know how to live!
                        There is withal a hopeful sin.
Too many people have seen the folly o their way. ' oo
many people realize that a few good things are more
desirable than many needless ones. We are going back
to a simpler method of living and of earning our living.
We have worshiped machines so long that we are tired
of the iron gods, and begin to respect the work of our
hands. We have the machines, we have our hands, we
have the vast, overwhelming knowledge of nature and
our mastery of it. We can with ease adopt the simple,
because our simplest things contain in themselves all the
toil and travail of the ages. This is our heritage: to go
back now, aye, to go forward indeed, to the things that
are most excellent, to regain our soul, to live our life, to
be again simple, happy children of God who is our Father.
TH-E CRAFrTSMAN
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