Excerpt from Blessed Be Drudgery: And Other Papers And our Ideals may seem dead and faded and beyond our reach. The following chapters will teach us, if even that be so, how we may idealize our Real, how our Drudgery may become our Blessing, how the Failures, the Burdens, the Temptations, which we are lamenting, may prove our best Friends on the upward way. A magician's wand is put in our hands, and if we will but consent to use it, we shall see everywhere about us in that lot which seemed so dark but a little ago, gems and treasures inestimable, which only wait to be ours 'by our use of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.