Men will not plow if warhorses are to trample down the ripe grain.

Men will not build if the enemy are to warm hands over blazing rafters.

Why should the husbandman plant vines if others are to wrest away his fruit?
The individual and the race need the stimulus of hope and a rational basis of security that nothing shall cut the connection between the causes sown and the effects to be reaped.

Therefore, the divine word: "Send forth thy gift and talent, and nature and providence shall invest it securely and give the talent back with interest and increase." What a promise for civilization was that of Christ: "Give and it shall be given unto you!" Let the husbandman give his seed to the furrows; soon the furrows will give back big bundles into the sower's arms.

Let the vintner give the sweat of his brow to the vines; soon the vines will give back the rich purple floods.