It will be said that while a little leisure is pleasant, men would not know how to fill their days if they had only four hours’ work out of the twenty-four. In so far as this is true in the modern world it is a condemnation of our civilization; it would not have been true at any earlier period. There was formerly a capacity for light-heartedness... See more

[…] Human beings have organized their lives in such a way that some never work, while forcing others to work for them. Consequently they become bored because they don’t know what to do, and they think up all kinds of stupid and repellent activities to keep themselves occupied, whereas the others work night and day, and suffer because they have to

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