Of the good and faithful servant, whose energies thus directed are thus methodized, it is less truly affirmed that he lives in time than that time lives in him.

His days and months and years, as the stops and punctual marks in the record of duties performed, will survive the wreck of worlds, and remain extant when time itself shall be no more." [1313] It is because application to business teaches method most effectually, that it is so useful as an educator of character.

The highest working qualities are best trained by active and sympathetic contact with others in the affairs of daily life.

It does not matter whether the business relate to the management of a household or of a nation.

Indeed, as we have endeavoured to show in a preceding chapter, the able housewife must necessarily be an efficient woman of business.