Agricola, Georgius, De re metallica, 1912/1950

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              not many years after, he attained wealth from the mines of Fürst, which
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              is a city in Lorraine, and took his name from “Luck.”
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              Nor would
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              King Vladislaus have restored to the Assembly of Barons, Tursius, a
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              citizen of Cracow, who became rich through the mines in that part of the
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              kingdom of Hungary which was formerly called Dacia.
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              Nay, not even the
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              common worker in the mines is vile and abject. </s>
              <s>For, trained to vigilance
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              and work by night and day, he has great powers of endurance when occasion
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              demands, and easily sustains the fatigues and duties of a soldier, for he is
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              accustomed to keep long vigils at night, to wield iron tools, to dig trenches,
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              to drive tunnels, to make machines, and to carry burdens. </s>
              <s>Therefore, experts
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              in military affairs prefer the miner, not only to a commoner from the town,
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              but even to the rustic.</s>
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              <s>But to bring this discussion to an end, inasmuch as the chief callings
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              are those of the moneylender, the soldier, the merchant, the farmer, and the
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              miner, I say, inasmuch as usury is odious, while the spoil cruelly captured
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              from the possessions of the people innocent of wrong is wicked in the sight
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              of God and man, and inasmuch as the calling of the miner excels in honour
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              and dignity that of the merchant trading for lucre, while it is not less noble
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              though far more profitable than agriculture, who can fail to realize that
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              mining is a calling of peculiar dignity? </s>
              <s>Certainly, though it is but one of
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              ten important and excellent methods of acquiring wealth in an honourable
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              way, a careful and diligent man can attain this result in no easier way
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              than by mining.
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              <s>END OF BOOK I.</s>
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