Chapter 9 Economics - 4

What my neighbor says is good, a great part of my soul thinks it is bad, and as for me, if I have any regrets, it is my good conduct.What devil has seized me, and made me behave so well?Old man, you have said those wisest things, and you have lived seventy years, and lived with honor, when I hear an irresistible voice begging me not to listen to you.The new generation discards the achievements of the previous generation as if they were some stranded ships. I think we can take it easy to believe a lot more than we actually believe.We can faithfully give others as much care for ourselves as we can give up.Nature adapts to our strengths as well as our weaknesses.The incessant worries and anxieties of some are an almost incurable disease.Our natural love is to boast of the importance of the work we do; yet how much work we do not do!What if we fall ill?How careful we are!Determined not to live according to faith, we avoid it as much as possible, watch from morning to night, pray against our will at night, and then commit ourselves to undetermined fate.We are compelled to live so thoughtfully and conscientiously that we worship our own lives and deny the possibility of change.This is the only way we can live, we say; but how many radii can be drawn from the center of a circle, and there are so many ways of life.All changes are miracles worth thinking about, and what happens every moment can be a miracle.Kong Fuyu once said: "Know what you know, and what you don't know is what you don't know. This is knowledge." When a person refines his imagined facts into his theory, I foresee that all people will eventually build on this foundation. from their lives.

Let us consider, what are the anxieties and anxieties of the majority of the people I mentioned above, and how many of them are necessary to worry about, or at least worthy of careful treatment?Although we live in the appearance of civilization, it is still beneficial for us to live a primitive, newly-opened settlement life, if only to understand what the necessities of life are generally, and how to obtain them, and even double-check The old running account in the store, see what is often sold in the store, and what goods are in stock, just to see what the most miscellaneous groceries are.Although the times are evolving, they have not had much impact on the basic principles of human existence: for example, our bones are probably indistinguishable from those of our ancestors.

The so-called necessities of life, in my sense, refers to the kind of goods that all people use their own energy to harvest: either it is very important from the beginning, or because of long-term habit, it has such an effect on life. Importance, even if there are those who try to get rid of it, there are very few, either out of barbarism, or poverty, or simply for the sake of a philosophy.For many there is but one necessity of life which has this meaning, food.Cattle in the field need only a few inches of chewable grass and some cool water; unless added the shade of the forest or hill they seek.All the beasts need food and shelter to survive.But man, in time, divides his necessities of life into: food, shelter, clothing, and fuel; unless we have these, we are not free to face the real problems of life, much less to envision their accomplishments.Man has not only invented houses, but also clothes, and cooked food; he may have stumbled upon the heat of fire, and then made use of it, at first a luxury, and now a necessity for warmth.We see cats and dogs acquiring this second nature in the same way.If you live and dress properly, you can maintain the heat in your body reasonably. If you live and dress too hot, or when you are grilling too hot, the heat outside is higher than the heat inside. Doesn’t it mean that you are baking Is it human flesh?The natural scientist Darwin said that the residents of Tierra del Fuego, when he and his group were warmed by the fire with their clothes on, did not feel the heat. At that time, the naked savages stood far away, but people were surprised to see them. I was sweating profusely from baking."Likewise, the New Hollanders are said to run about naked and poised, while the Europeans tremble with clothes on.Is not the strength of these savages equal to the wisdom of the civilized man?According to Liebig, the human body is a furnace, and food is the fuel that keeps the lungs burning.We eat more in cold weather and less in hot weather.Animal heat is the result of slow internal combustion, and disease and death occur when it is too vigorous; either because the fuel is absent, or because the ventilator is out of order, the fire goes out.Naturally, we must not confuse the warmth of life with fire, and our analogy ends here.So, judging from the above statement, the term animal life can be used synonymously with the body temperature of animals: food, used as fuel for internal combustion, - is also fuel for cooking food, cooked food is swallowed from the outside Into the body, also, to increase our internal heat,—and, moreover, shelter and clothing, to retain the heat thus generated and absorbed.

Therefore, for the human body, the greatest necessity is to keep warm, to keep our nourishing heat.How we toil, Not only for our Food, and Clothing, and Shelter, but our beds, which are our night-cloths, From the nests and breasts of birds We have fashioned a shelter within a shelter, Like a mole in a bed of blades of grass at the end of a burrow!The poor man often complains that it is a cold world; and we blame the cold as much for the sickness of the body as the sickness of society.In some regions, summer offers a paradise-like life.No fuel was needed there but fuel for cooking; the sun was his flame, and its rays cooked the fruit; It is not used at all, or half of it is not used.In the current era, in our country, according to my own experience, I think that as long as there are a few tools, it is enough to live, a knife, an axe, a shovel, a wheelbarrow, that's all. Lights and stationery, plus a few books, are the lesser necessities, and can be acquired at a small expense.Some people, however, are so unintelligent that they go to another hemisphere, into wild, unsanitary regions, and trade for ten or twenty years in order to keep them alive—that is, to keep them comfortable. And Warmth—, back in New England at last, was dead.The extravagant are not only comfortable and warm, but unnaturally hot; as I have said before, they are baked, and of course they are baked in style.