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Time for free thought – unoccupied or misoccupied time almost
every human being has in abundance. Apart from those occupations engagements
on which existence & its enjoyments depend, – apart from those
amusements which are necessary to health, – apart from hours of
repose or hours of repast, – time there is in the possession of
all men which they may employ in the exercise of free thought
giving to that thought a moral, – or in other words a useful & a felicitous direction. Every night, – & every day, –
morning, – & evening have those interstices be filled
up to excellent purposes. Some time elapses between the
moment of sleep3 & that of2 lying down1. Sleep itself is not
continuous, – its breaks leave time for the yet reflection. How much
again of a man's life is employed in locomotion – in walking
or being conveyed from place to place – how much in attendance on
others. What thousand interruptions steal moments away
from the his occupations of business or of pleasure. These
moments are all of them precious. Again And then How many of
the engagements of mankind are handicraft & mechanical
leaving to the thoughts an almost unbridled liberty to wander
whither they will. Time for which may thought is wanting to no man
who has learned how to husband time. In the multitudinous
moments of existence as in the multitudinous topics which
have a claim upon him our the attention of our race neither
time nor subjects for reflection prudential & benevolent reflection can be
long sought for in vain.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	402	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f80
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	5618
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