The work may be done in a thousand different ways—with the brain or the hands, in the study, the field, or the workshop—if it is honest work, honestly done and well worth doing, that is all we have a right to ask.
In an essay promoting the value of effort and contribution, this passage emphasizes the importance of honest and meaningful work regardless of its form.
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