CHAPTER II.
OBSTACLES TO WEALTH AND CAUSES OF WEALTH.
Man is naturally in a state of entire destitution.
Between this state, and the satisfying of his wants, there exist a number of obstacles which it is the object of labor to surmount.
I wish to make a journey of some hundred miles.

But between the point of my departure and my destination there are interposed mountains, rivers, swamps, forests, robbers; in a word--_obstacles_.

To overcome these obstacles it is necessary that I should bestow much labor and great efforts in opposing them; or, what is the same thing, if others do it for me, I must pay them the value of their exertions.

IT IS EVIDENT THAT I WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER OFF HAD THESE OBSTACLES NEVER EXISTED.

Remember this.
Through the journey of life, in the long series of days from the cradle to the tomb, man has many difficulties to oppose him.