Dignity
All kinds of work deserve our respect. but there are a number of people who consider some kinds of work ignoble and inferior. the work of farmers is much more important than that of teachers. the reason is that if the farmers do not work, we shall not get any food-stuff. If street-cleaners do not work, life in cities and towns will become difficult. "It does not disgrace a gentleman" say Ruskin, "to become and errand boy or a day laborer, but it disgraces him most to become a knave and a thief." For Carlyle, work is worship. According to him, there is perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. To work is to pray. the worker is the savior of society, the redeemer of the race, God is the tiller of the hard ground and the path-maker.
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