Excerpt from Excelsior, Vol. 5: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature To the people of the Netherlands their territory has been an excellent teacher. Says the shore gently shelving, Take pains, and I will repay you. Drive a few piles, and wattle and puddle them, and at once you have an estate - a little croft of your own on which you may grow roots and herbs, or pasture kine. And if you take the produce to the nearest market, you will get money; and with that money you may hire labour and take in more land from this shallow ocean, or this oozy marsh and thus, adding field to field, you may at last bequeath a goodly freehold to your grateful children. Which is just the philosophy of Industry. Every one of us is born on the edge of an ocean. 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.