Through his intelligent, voluntary labor, conscientiously performed and with a view to the future, he produces more than the layman does.

Through his temperate, judicious, economical system he consumes less than the layman does.

Hence it is that where the layman had failed he sustains himself and even prospers.[1105] He welcomes the unfortunate, feeds them, sets them to work, and unites them in matrimony and beggars, vagabonds, and fugitive peasants gather around the sanctuary.

Their camp gradually becomes a village and next a small town; man plows as soon as he can be sure of his crops, and becomes the father of a family as soon as he considers himself able to provide for his offspring.

In this way new centers of agriculture and industry are formed, which likewise become new centers of population.[1106] To food for the body add food for the soul, not less essential.