It was this episode that made the workers during their next conference
branch out in new lines.
"We need something," said Dr. Everett, walking up and down the floor in
puzzled thought, "we need something that shall be a genuine common
interest, of which we are all, or all but one, equally ignorant--something
that we can take hold of with zest, on as low a platform as the most
ignorant of those seen. I was convinced of that when I saw the abandon
with which we all went into the type-writer business, with a naturalness
and equality that, in the matter of reading and writing, it is impossible
for us to feel. If the machine were complicated, so that it would take us
each three months or so to master it, that would do. What can we take up
that will place us on a level?"
CHAPTER XIX.
"WE HAVE BEGUN BACKWARDS."
"Well," said Mr. Ried, "we should want to have one of our number not 'on
a level.' How would it do to appoint you, sir, to give us a few lectures
in Hygiene? Popular lectures about air and exercise and ventilation and
bathing, and all sorts of every-day topics, about which people are
ignorant."
"That's a capital idea, Ried. Those fellows could certainly be benefited
by a little attention to such questions; and I'm sure the rest of us
would like to hear of the principles which govern these important laws.
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