How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

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no weightier reproach been put forward I might almost have been persuaded that the volume was flawless! A more serious stricture has, however, been offered - not in the press, but by sundry obviously sincere correspondents - and I must deal with it. A reference to page 43 will show that I anticipated and feared this disapprobation. The sentence against which protests

ubordinates with no hope of ever being much better off - who do enjoy their business functions, who do not shirk them, who do not arrive at the office as late

at while engaged in those duties they were really living to the fullest extent of which they were capable. But I remain convinced that these fortunate and happy individuals (happier perhaps than they guessed) did not and do not constitute a majority, or anything like a majority. I remain convinced that the majority of d

whole difficulty of the hard-working minority was put in a single colloquial sentence by one of my correspondents. He wrote: "I am just as keen as anyone on do

ours they are really alive; their engines are giving the full indicated "h.p." The other eight working hours of their day may be badly organised, or even frittered away; but it is less disastrous to waste eight hours a day than sixteen hours a day; it is better to have lived a bit than never to have lived at all. The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man

ho already had an interest in existence. It is always the man who has tasted life who demands mo

in the morning is as practicable for you as for anybody. And that weekly interval of forty hours, from Saturday to Monday, is yours just as much as the other man's, though a slight accumulation of fatigue may prevent you from employing the whole of your "h.p." upon it. There remains, then, the important portion of the three or more evenings

arlier at night. I think that if you persist in rising earlier, and the consequence is insufficiency of sleep, you will soon find a way of going to bed earlier. But my impression is that the consequences of rising earlier will not be an insufficiency of sleep. My impression, growing stronger every year, is that sleep is partly a matter of habit - and of slackness. I am convinced that most people sleep as long as they do because t

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out of ten would have better health and more

is judgment, which, of course,

highest welfare to depend upon the precarious immediate co-operation of a fellow creature! Instruct the fellow creature, whoever she may be, at night. Tell her to put a tray in a suitable position over night. On that tray two biscuits, a cup and saucer, a box of matches and a spirit-lamp; on the lamp, the saucepan; on the saucepan, the lid - but turned the wrong way up; on the reversed lid, the small teapot, containing a minute quantity of te

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