The American Spectator
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76% Informative
Without leisure, man cannot think without a relaxing of the need to fight to earn a wage.
The Soviet man had no leisure in his dingy little flat, because the Soviet demands came to penetrate the mind.
Leisure implies freedom, a generosity of spirit that will permit thought to range, without your knowing where the foray will take you.
Albert Deane Richardson has a good deal to say about what happened to anti-slavery journalists in Missouri and Kansas , in the years leading up to the Civil War .
The point is that most of human life had not yet been subject to political action, oversight, and reprisal, nor was the human mind yet subject to the constant noise — wheedling, nagging, sneering, seducing, distracting.
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English
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