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mankind acting in the mass, cooperatively, as a sect, order, or legislative body. The noise and bustle of some excite others ; as an old broken down cart- horse, driven into a band of wild, frolicsome horses, becomes fractious and unmanageable. Business breeds business, and caution engenders caution. He who croaks and hoards, lying in wait for opportunities to get something for nothing, incites others to croak and hoard and lie in wait ; and so stagnation follows. A man who cheerfully, and with hope in his heart, goes to work, develops the resources of his country, buys and sells and builds, will incite like activity in others, and development and property must follow. Deliberation and caution are well enoagh in their place, and not to be overlooked at any time, but a good driver does not put on the brakes going up hill. It is true that the people of California are very greatly absorbed in making money. And this is as it should be, for what is money-making but develop- ment and progress ? Culture and refinement always follow material prosperity, they never precede it. We have here lands to be put under contribution, mines to be opened, railroads and cities to be built; would it be accounted to us as wise to sit down to play when we have made no provision for our dinner ? First provide for the material man, else the mental will fare poorly enough. But, say our friends at the east, "You have made money enough ; it is time you should turn your attention to something better than money, if ever you intend doing so." Very true, but railway trains are not stopped at full speed ; cart horses do not usually make the best racers, and ships built for the water do not sail w^ell in the air. Money-makers are simply machines, as are philoso- phers and scholars ; take one to pieces and remodel it, and the working of it afterward is very doubtful. I see no other way but to give the country time. The next generation will beget new inventions, ex- periences thus brought together propagate. Hence
