[Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden]@TWC D-Link bookPushing to the Front CHAPTER IV 12/15
This marvelous reserve power which he stores up in the country will come out in the successful banker, statesman, lawyer, merchant, or business man. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
The country boy is constantly thrown upon his own resources; he is forced to think for himself, and this calls out his ingenuity and makes him self-reliant and strong.
It has been found that the use of tools in our manual training schools develops the brain, strengthens the deficient faculties and brings out latent powers.
The farm-reared boy is in the best manual training school in the world and is constantly forced to plan things, make things; he is always using tools.
This is one of the reasons why he usually develops better all-round judgment and a more level head than the city boy. It is human nature to exaggerate the value of things beyond our reach. People save money for years in order to go to Europe to visit the great art centers and see the famous masterpieces, when they have really never seen the marvelous pictures painted by the Divine Artist and spread in the landscape, in the sunset, in the glory of flowers and plant life, right at their very doors. What a perpetual inspiration, what marvels of beauty, what miracles of coloring are spread everywhere in nature, confronting us on every hand! We see them almost every day of our lives and they become so common that they make no impression upon us.
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