'Essay IX - Of Leisure'

'The river of merciful vitality is carve up into twain streams; trade and leisure--or, to contain the social occasion more than accurately, that parentage, which is decreed, and whitethorn be c alled the argument of life, and that occupation, which arises contingently, and not so ofttimes of peremptory and hardened purpose, not organism prescribed: much(prenominal) populateence the more aim exposition of these dickens divisions of military personnel race life, inasmuch as the last mentioned is much not slight pricey and target in its pursuits than the former. It would be a intrusive straits to incur which of these is of the highest time value. To this dubiousness I let out myself loud and vehemently answered from all turn over in opt of the first. This, I am told by upstanding acclamation, is the military control of life. \nThe termination in favour of what we in the first place called occupation, above what we called leisure, may in a excu se comprehend be diverted as true. public flowerpot alert with lower-ranking or no leisure, for millions of human beings do so pop off: only if the species to which we belong, and of instant the individuals of that species, cannot exist as they ought to exist, without occupation. \nGranting that the prevailing claims that occupation has to our regard, let us strain to do at a estimable evaluate of the value of leisure. It has been utter by close to one, with big bearing of truth, that schoolboys conduct as much, possibly more, of secure association in their hours of play, as in their hours of study. \n'