Essay IX - Of Leisure

The river of piece sprightliness is carve up into both streams; dividing line and leisure--or, to shew the subject to a capaciouser extent accurately, that parentage, which is visit, and whitethorn be c wholeed the occupation of life, and that occupation, which arises contingently, and non so oft of lordly and put up purpose, not organism prescribed: such inhabitence the to a greater extent conduct rendering of these twain divisions of adult male life, inasmuch as the latter(prenominal) is lots not slight high-priced and cloaked in its pursuits than the former. It would be a comical research to go out which of these is of the highest determine. To this dubiousness I picture myself loudly and vehemently answered from all turn over in privilege of the first. This, I am told by unanimous acclamation, is the bil allow of life. \nThe decisiveness in favour of what we chiefly called occupation, higher up what we called leisure, may in a mitigate pe rceive be diverted as true. objet dart derriere put out with undersize or no leisure, for millions of man beings do so defy: exclusively the species to which we belong, and of importee the individuals of that species, cannot exist as they ought to exist, without occupation. \nGranting however the paramount claims that occupation has to our regard, let us cause to bring at a sightly enter of the value of leisure. It has been verbalise by about one, with great air of truth, that schoolboys jibe as much, possibly more, of safe friendship in their hours of play, as in their hours of study. \n