A horse can do this.

But _he_ is pre-eminently the working man who works with his brain also, and whose whole physical system is under the influence of his higher faculties.

The man who paints a picture, who writes a book, who makes a law, who creates a poem, is a working man of the highest order,--not so necessary to the physical sustainment of the community as the ploughman or the shepherd; but not less important as providing for society its highest intellectual nourishment.
Having said so much of the importance and the necessity of industry, let us see what uses are made of the advantages derivable from it.

It is clear that man would have continued uncivilized but for the accumulations of savings made by his forefathers,--the savings of skill, of art, of invention, and of intellectual culture.
It is the savings of the world that have made the civilization of the world.

Savings are the result of labour; and it is only when labourers begin to save, that the results of civilization accumulate.