把信送给加西亚-第7章
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and homeless。
Have I put the matter too strongly? Possibly I have; but when all the world has gone a…slumming I wish to speak a word of sympathy for the man who succeeds…the man who; against great odds; has directed the efforts of others; and having succeeded; finds there’s nothing in it: nothing but bare board and clothes。 I have carried a dinner pail and worked for day’s wages; and I have also been an employer of labor; and I know there is something to be said on both sides。 There is no excellence; per se; in poverty; rags are no remendation; and all employers are not rapacious and high…handed; any more than all poor men are virtuous。 My heart goes out to the man who does his work when the “boss” is away; as well as when he is at home。 And the man who; when given a letter for Garcia; quietly takes the missive; without asking any idiotic questions; and with no lurking intention of chucking it into the nearest sewer; or of doing aught else but deliver it; never gets “laid off” nor has to go on a strike for higher wages。
Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals。
Anything such a man asks shall be granted。 He is wanted in every city; town and village…in every office; shop; store and factory。 The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly…the man who can “Carry a Message to Garcia”。
So who will send a letter to Garcia?
Elbert Hubbard
1899
作者简介
阿尔伯特。哈伯德(1856…1915),《菲士利人》和《兄弟》杂志的编辑;Roycrofters公司的创造人和总裁。1856年6月19日出生于美国布鲁明顿,父亲是一个乡村医师,同时也经营着一家农场。哈伯德在塔夫茨大学取得文学硕士之后,又攻读了法学博士,最后进入了哈佛大学,在那里从事教学、编辑和演讲工作。1980年,他遇见了威廉。莫里斯,于是回家到东奥罗拉创办了Roycroft出版社以及kelmscott出版社。不久Roycrofters公司的业务蒸蒸日上,这种半社区性的机构吸引了无数的人群,公司的正式员工增加到了800人。
由于哈伯德罕见的经营天赋和写作才华,名誉和金钱接踵而来,不久就闻名于世,被称为“东奥罗拉的圣人”。他的主要出版物,除了那两份杂志,自己也写了许多著作:《把信送给加西亚》、《一天》、《现在的力量》、《自己是最大的敌人》、《一生的目标》、《短暂的旅行》系列、《时间和机遇》、《约翰。布朗的一生》等等,另外还有在杂志上发表的上万篇的文章。
他的主要爱好有骑马、游泳、划艇以及照料花园。
不幸的是1915年,他乘坐的露西塔尼亚号轮船被德国水雷击中沉入海底,过早地结束了他辉煌的事业。但他的荣誉却得以持久流传。为了纪念这位哲人,Roycrofters公司的出版物以及生产的其他工艺品得到了人们的疯狂的收藏。《把信送给加西亚》是哈伯德著作中不朽的名著,今天人们阅读着这本承载百年智慧的小书,强烈地震撼着久已音调枯燥的心弦,即使是最强烈的顽石也会为之动容。
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