n extremity of weather, he said only to
them, 'Necesse est ut eam, non ut vivam.' But it may be truly
affirmed that there was never any philosophy, religion, or other
discipline, which did so plainly and highly exalt the good which is
communicative, and depress the good which is private and particular,
as the Holy Faith; well declaring, that it was the same God that gave
the Christian law to men, who gave those laws of nature to inanimate
creatures that we spoke of before."

_Bacon's Advancement of Learning_.

"And well may masters consider how easie a transposition it had been
for God, to have made him to mount into the saddle that holds the
stirrup; and him to sit down at the table, who stands by with a
trencher."

_Fuller's Holy State_.

TO HENRY TAYLOR, ESQ.

MY DEAR TAYLOR,

I have great pleasure in dedicating this book to you, as I know of no one
who, both in his life and writings, has shown a more profound and
delicate care for the duties of the Employer to the Employed. Pardon me,
if following the practice of the world, I see the author in his hero, and
think I hear you speaking, when Van Artevelde exclaims--

"A serviceable, faithful, thoughtful friend,
Is old Van Ryk, and of a humble nature,
And yet with faculties and gifts of sense,
Which place him justly on no lowly level--
Why should I say a lowlier than my own,
Or otherwise than as an equal use him?
That with familiarity respect
Doth slacken, is a word of common use.
I never found it so."

I have had some peculiar advantages in writing upon this subject. I
should have been unobservant indeed, if, with such masters as I have
served under, I had not learnt something, in regard to the duties of a
great employer of labour, from witnessing their ever-flowing courtesy;
their care for those who came within their sphere; their anxiety, as the
heads of departments, to recognize every exertion on the part of their
subordinates; and their ready sympathy with the poor and the friendless,
a sympathy which the vexations and harassments of office, and all those
things that tend to turn a man's thoughts in upon himself, could never
subdue.

But, happily, it is not only amongst the high in office that such
examples are to be found. The spirit, and even some of the very modes of