Thus society echoes back each temperament and each career.
Evermore man receives what he first gives to nature and society and God.
History is rich in interpretation of this principle.

In every age man has received from society what he has given to society.

This continent lay waiting for ages for the seed of civilization.

At length the sower went forth to sow.

Landing in midwinter upon a bleak coast, the fathers gave themselves to cutting roads, draining swamps, subduing grasses, rearing villages, until all the land was sown with the good seed of liberty and Christian civilization.