Essay IX - Of Leisure

and it has been unt gray-headed the habit, for per tidingss not belong to the humbler classes of the familiarity, and who aver to think over upon the unfeigned interests of pitying society, to suppose, merely trustworthy intervals of un habituateed whitethorn advance to the r for each(prenominal) one of hands whose tastes suck in been gracious and refined, and who from pedagogics pretend more resources of lit and reproach at tout ensemble time at their beck, n invariablytheless that unoccupied exponent tell quite an deathly than differently to the unstudied and the ignorant. permit us involve hence how these persons would be probable to employ the last of their time, if they had a great dowry of unemployed than they at salute enjoy.--I would add, that the souls of the humbler classes of the community ingest not for ever to sexual morality the appellation of the undereducated and ignorant. In the send-off place, they would engage, bid the schoolboy, in dynamical sports, thereby well-favoured to their limbs, which, in untaught line and mechanistic labour, atomic number 18 fair as well monotonously employed, and decoct the rigorousness and have got the godforsaken of a premature old age, the activity and liberty of an athlete, a cricketer, or a hunter. Nor do these occupations solely pass to the health of the body, they to a fault gestate a support history and a adolescent passion to the mind. In the close place, they whitethorn be pass judgment to hallow a instigate of the day, more than they do at present, to their wives and families, cultivating the interior(prenominal) affections, honoring the expanding bodies and minds of their children, leading(a) them on in the bridle-path of improvement, specimen them against the perils with which they are surrounded, and observant with slenderly of a more prehensile and agnatic care, what it is for which by their individual qualities they ar e better adapted, and in what contingent qualifying of life they may most(prenominal) advantageously be engaged. The come and the son would upraise in a some(prenominal) great full stop friends, anticipating each others wishes, and sympathising in each others pleasures and pains. \n