text:  If such men shall yet have the power of looking down from some remoter planet on their idle empty and self-indulgent course in our own perhaps they would rejoice to have exchanged with the lot of him whose bread was earned by the sweat of his brow yet who had fulfilled the duties of his station; and whose hand had been withheld by necessity from that banquet where all the nobler purposes of life were forgotten and where the senses absorbed the higher nature