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VIII.
TRAINING IN ENJOYMENT.[1]
There are two widespread views of enjoyment
which seem far apart, but which, while from
each of them we may learn something, have
in common a grave defect.
We may call them the indolent view and the ascetic view. Commonplace people generally take the indolent view, though it does not on the whole represent even their practice. For them, as they think, enjoyment and recreation chiefly mean freedom from compulsory toil — amusement, entertainment. This freedom from
- ↑ Delivered at the Maria Grey Training College.
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