Essays on Work and Culture

by Hamilton Wright Mabie

Produced by Carel Lyn Miske, Charles Franks

and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

ESSAYS ON WORK AND CULTURE

BY

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE

To
Henry Van Dyke

"Along the slender wires of speech
Some message from the heart is sent;
But who can tell the whole that's meant?
Our dearest thoughts are out of reach."

CONTENTS

I. Tool or Man?
II. The Man in the Work
III. Work as Self-Expression
IV. The Pain of Youth
V. The Year of Wandering
VI. The Ultimate Test
VII. Liberation
VIII. The Larger Education
IX. Fellowship
X. Work and Pessimism
XI. The Educational Attitude
XII. Special Training
XIII. General Training
XIV. The Ultimate Aim
XV. Securing Right Conditions
XVI. Concentration
XVII. Relaxation
XVIII. Recreation
XIX. Ease of Mood
XX. Sharing the Race-Fortune
XXI. The Imagination in Work
XXII. The Play of the Imagination
XXIII. Character
XXIV. Freedom from Self-Consciousness
XXV. Consummation

Work and Culture