The Project Gutenberg eBook of An Apology For Idlers, by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Credits: Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON PORTLAND MAINE THOMAS B MOSHER MDCCCCXVI {9} AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS J UST now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade. And yet this should not be. Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognised in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself. It is admitted that the presence of people who refuse to enter in the great handicap race for sixpenny pie

The Project Gutenberg eBook of An Apology For Idlers, by Robert Louis Stevenson. AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS AND OTHER ESSAYS PORTLAND MAINE THOMAS B MOSHER MDCCCCXVI FIRST EDITION, OCTOBER, 1905 SECOND EDITION, SEPTEMBER, 1908 THIRD EDITION, SEPTEMBER, 1916 CONTENTS PAGE An Apology for Idlers 9 El Dorado 35 The English Admirals 45 Child’s Play 77 AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS {9} AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS J UST now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse -respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour th

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