Without Disturbing the Traffic.
When they began the construction of subways, it was an annoying process. The streets for miles were rendered impassable, chasms yawned up and down the city, and for many months there was great disturbance to traffic and great loss of business. Now, however, all that is changed. The work is done with hardly a break in the surface, only a small shaft here and there for the quiet removal of dirt and entrance of steel girders and bags of cement, usually in the night. The city hardly realizes that a subway is under construction till, one fine day, it is invited to use it.
The entire process is illustrative of the way a wise man will make improvements in his life and effect changes in his thinking. Quietly, without fuss, he will be at work under the surface, removing what is useless and building up what is useful, until he has constructed a brand-new and greatly improved method of existence or course of thought. The best things should be done in the best way.