Changing the Face of the Land
The early 1900's
The last clear definite function
of man-muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the
single need-this is man. To build a wall, to build a house, a
dam, and in the wall and house and dam to put something of Manself,
and to Manself take back something of the wall, the house, the
dam; to take hard muscles from the lifting, to take the clear
lines and form from conceiving. For man, unlike any other thing
organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks
up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John
Steinbeck from The Grapes of Wrath
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