Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association: At the Thirtieth Anniversary, November 13, 1850
The various employments of civilized life may lie divided into two classes, corresponding to the body and the, mind in man. Trade and commerce minister to material wants, natural or artificial; science and literature, to intellectual growth. Thus, the merchant may be taken as the representative Of outward or practical life, and the scholar, Of inward or intellectual life. In this division, no disparaging comparison is involved. Each class of employments has its peculiar advantages and its peculiar dangers. The ideal merchant is, in my judgment, nowise.
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