Wasatch Mountains: Bridal Veil Falls, Provo Canyon, Utah

280 IMPROVEMENT ERA. by-products in our intellectual and moral natures that have to be worked over to be utilized in order to make our lives profitable to ourselves and to others. The man who figures out tha workings of human nature, as he figures out the workings of a machine, and makes no allowance for peculiarities and personalities, will be very greatly disappointed. The man, however, who can put to good account individual traits, and who can make allowance for human weaknesses, and turn them all to good account, is an economist in human nature. It has not been many years since we threw into great heaps products of the factory and the farm, products which we considered useless. It is the glory of the new age that we can put these waste products to some profitable use which hitherto had not entered our imaginations. According to the human theories of life, there are vast heaps of waste humm nature in which we can see no possible earthly good. We throw every year into these great waste piles, human traits, personal oddities, moral obliquities, and shortcomings which we can turn to no useful account. We may realize some day in human nature, what we have found out in the economies of life, that we are throwing away every year millions that might be utilized for the advancement and happiness of humanity. Victor Hugo writes of the millions which the sewers of Paris carry annually into the sea. If these millions, reoresented in the sewers of Paris, were allowed to accumulate unused; they would represent millions of loss, and an alarming increase of mortality. What, after all, are many of the moral shortcomings of men and women but misdirected energies, — energies which a divine economy might put to a good account? We call these shortcomings a moral waste, and the energies which produce all this waste we run into the sewers, and from the sewers into the sea. The idea seems to prevail that that which is not apparently desirable we must get rid of altogether, as though it had no use in any form. He, therefore, who invents the best uses for the by- and wasteproducts of human life must be esteemed a benefactor to his race. If we would do a little mixed farming in our human associations, we would find more wealth in human nature than we ever dreamed of. Albeita. Canada.