FIRST EDITION, OCTOBER, 1905 SECOND EDITION, SEPTEMBER, 1908 THIRD EDITION, SEPTEMBER, 1916 Just 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 i…
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