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Alycia Mcmartin sagel****@cmib*****
2009年 8月 29日 (土) 21:47:39 JST


Evelopments of this spirit are so familiar that I need not stop to
enumerate them. The important thing now is to discover the right
stand-point for discussion. And here let me say what, until recently, I
had supposed there was no need of saying: that amusement is a necessity
of man's nature as truly as food, or drink, or sleep. Physiology, common
sense, experience, philosophy, are all at one on this point. Man needs
something besides change of employment. He needs something pursued with
a view solely to _enjoyment_. Those who deny this are ignorant of the
simplest fundamental laws of mind and matter. Men who assert publicly
that they need no amusements, and "want to die in the harness," will
have the opportunity of dying in the harness some years earlier than
would be demanded in the ordinary course of nature. Nature will not
suffer even zealous Christian men to violate this law with impunity. She
forbids man to labor continuously, and if he persists in disregarding
her prohibition, she will revenge herself by imbecility, uselessness, or
death. This must be assumed in all discussions of the subject; and it
being a religious, no less than a physical truth, it throws into new
prominence the question, how, as Christians, we are to discharge this
duty without being led away by the temptation which adjoins it so
closely. Let it be borne in mind that we are not now dealing with
individual cases of conscience, but with general laws. While then there
is obviously a distinction between amusements--while it is granted that
some develop greater capabilities of abuse than others, the attempt to
adjust this question on the basis of _discriminating between amusements_
must result in failure. It always has, and it always will. This basis is
secure only in a question between an innocent amusement, and one
involving a palpable violation of the law of God. The advocate of any
particular amusement is, on this ground, shut up to the necessity of
proving that what he approv
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