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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: escape day or night--which is the companion not only of the
prisoner's work but of his hours of rest--with which he has to
sleep, to feed, to take his recreation if he has any, and to
fulfil all the offices of nature. Could anything be more
crushing? And yet, and yet . . . is it not true that we, most of
us, in our various ways are chained to our wheelbarrows--is it
not too often true that to these beggarly things we have for the
most part chained OURSELVES?
Let me be understood. Of course we all have (or ought to
have) our work to do. We have our living to get, our families
to support, our trade, our art, our profession to pursue. In
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