![]() He was a contemplative, rather stout gentleman, of excellent digestion of quiet perceptions, undiseased by hypothesis happy in his inability to know the causes of things, preferring the things themselves. He only read one newspaper, innocent of leaders, and was free from that periodicity of sensations which we call post-time. Old Leisure was quite a different personage. ![]() ![]() Even idleness is eager now-eager for amusement prone to excursion-trains, art museums, periodical literature, and exciting novels prone even to scientific theorizing and cursory peeps through microscopes. Do not believe them: it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in. “Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. ![]()
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