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The whole time of the individual is comprized within the
field of education
The whole time of an individual at this as at any other period of life, may be divided distinguished
into the quiescent part and the active: – the quiescent
is filled up by sleep – the active by occupations.
The whole sum or mass of his occupations taken together
has or ought to have will have be or ought to be directed to points in view objects. 1. Subsistence.
2. Health Existence. 3. Strength. 4. Security Intellectual improvement.
6. 5. Comfort (including amusement in all its shapes
and under all its denominations). and 6. Security. 7.
Devotion. Of The quiescent part purely quiescent,
as it is so much lost to existence thus much may
be affirmed in the first instance at the outset – that deducting allowance made
what is requisite for health and strength, it ought
to be the shorter it can be made the better. Existence
for the day is provided for by food and other
necessaries: existence for future days is provided for
by that labour of which food and other necessaries are
the fruit. Labour, productive labour, being therefore necessary to
the preservation of the species, and not the necessity
nor any individual capable of being released from the
burthen of it but by its being shifted off upon
another, it this occupation takes precedence in the order of importance
of all others (nutrition alone excepted
which is not exposed to be neglected liable to neglect) strength and
even health itself not excepted. All might live
though none were to be in health: but none would
live if labour were to cease. In the situation of
the affluent and self-maintaining classes of the non-adult labour may
be and is dispensed with: in the situation of this
class to which it is most indispensable necessary it might be
in the proposed order of things as it is in the in so great
a degree it is in the existing order of things, dispensed with
in
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