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THE PROBLEM OF THE PYRAMIDS. 183
hand, the less costly works of our own time, while
their very construction has involved good instead
of misery to the lowlier classes, have increased the
knowledge and the well-being of mankind. The
goodly seed of the earth, though perishable itself,
germinates, fructifies, and bears other seed, which
will in turn bring forth yet other and perchance
even better fruits ; so the efforts of man to work
good to his fellow-man instead of evil, although
they may lead to perishable material results, will
yet germinate, and fructify, and bear seed, over
an ever-widening field of time, even to untold
generations.
hand, the less costly works of our own time, while
their very construction has involved good instead
of misery to the lowlier classes, have increased the
knowledge and the well-being of mankind. The
goodly seed of the earth, though perishable itself,
germinates, fructifies, and bears other seed, which
will in turn bring forth yet other and perchance
even better fruits ; so the efforts of man to work
good to his fellow-man instead of evil, although
they may lead to perishable material results, will
yet germinate, and fructify, and bear seed, over
an ever-widening field of time, even to untold
generations.