Interest and education : the doctrine of interest and its concrete application / by Charles De Garmo.

  • Charles De Garmo
Date:
1902
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Credit: Interest and education : the doctrine of interest and its concrete application / by Charles De Garmo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion, more energy, and so on as long as the tribe exists. It should not be assumed that because every person in the group works with his life in his hand, so to speak, pain is the predominating note. So long as he has energy left, the hunter will enjoy his hunt, will glory in its risks and its triumphs. The exercise of his stored-up energy alone suffices to make him enjoy his work; and when to this source of pleasure we add prospective enjoyment of its fruits, and perhaps the somewhat aesthetic enjoyment aris- ing from a contemplation of goodly stores for the future, we can see that pleasure is not denied to man, even in the desolate and barren Northland. It is only when energy or hope fails that labor becomes a pain to the Eskimo.1 Like their sisters of more favored climes, the Eskimo women have the less strenuous duties of the household. Since their housekeeping is exceedingly simple, most of their time can be spent' in the tanning of skins, and their manu- facture into clothing. The skins are rendered 1 Compare Patten, “The Theory of Prosperity,” Intro- duction, The Macmillan Co.
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