I have for authorities "England, Political and Social" by August Laugel,
private secretary of the Duc d'Aumale, Notes and Queries, No 283,
Green's "History of the English People," "Froude's History of England,"
and current numbers of the _Mark Lane Express_.
In the terms applied to the laborer, from pariah, helot, servus, serf,
knecht, thrall, slave, villain, peasant, and laborer, to artisan and
working-man--there is a vision of progress as bright as the light which
fell upon Saul of Tarsus as he journeyed toward Damascus.
To the man whose whole mind is given to the work he does, the time goes
swiftly. Many a man whom success has translated from the grocery, the
plow-factory, the farm, to the matting and the yellow bedsteads of the
seaside hotel, finds that he was happier at home, when he was poor, and
that he was then often far more comfortable in body.