Men do not like hard work

[Kingfisher]

But every man has an exceptional respect for tillage,and a feeling that this is the original calling of of his race, that he he himself is only excused from it by some circumstance which made him delagate it for a time to other hands. ". Something I saw today that I thought to share. It's a clip from an essay. Anybody recognize it? I do in my loins...never saw it before in print.

 

[Dega Moo]

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Society and Solitude", chapter 6 "Farming" published in 1870. Edit - Added: "Society and Solitude" is a collection of lectures Emerson turned into essays which were collected and published. It appears several state Ag departments usurped the work without much if any attribution.