How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day E-Book

Arnold Bennett

• Herausgeber: GIANLUCA
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

And that weekly interval of forty hours, from Saturday to Monday, is yours just as much as the other man’s, though a slight accumulation of fatigue may prevent you from employing the whole of your “h.p.” upon it. There remains, then, the important portion of the three or more evenings a week. You tell me flatly that you are too tired to do anything outside your programme at night. In reply to which I tell you flatly that if your ordinary day’s work is thus exhausting, then the balance of your life is wrong and must be adjusted. A man’s powers ought not to be monopolised by his ordinary day’s work. What, then, is to be done?

Leseprobe

How to Live on

Twenty-Four Hours a Day

by Arnold Bennett

First digital edition 2017 by Gianluca Ruffini

PREFACE

I THE DAILY MIRACLE

II THE DESIRE TO EXCEED ONE’S PROGRAMME

III PRECAUTIONS BEFORE BEGINNING

IV THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE

V TENNIS AND THE IMMORTAL SOUL

VI REMEMBER HUMAN NATURE

VII CONTROLLING THE MIND

VIII THE REFLECTIVE MOOD

IX INTEREST IN THE ARTS

X NOTHING IN LIFE IS HUMDRUM

XI SERIOUS READING

XII DANGERS TO AVOID

PREFACE

This preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be, should be read at the end of the book.

I have received a large amount of correspondence concerning this small work, and many reviews of it, some of them nearly as long as the book itself, have been printed. But scarcely any of the comment has been adverse. Some people have objected to a frivolity of tone; but as the tone is not, in my opinion, at all frivolous, this objection did not impress me; and had no weightier reproach been put forward I might almost have been persuaded that the volume was flawless! A more serious stricture has, however, been offered, not in the press, but by sundry obviously sincere correspondents, and I must deal with it. A reference will show that I anticipated and feared this disapprobation. The sentence against which protests have been made is as follows: “In the majority of instances he [the typical man] does not precisely feel a passion for his business; at best he does not dislike it. He begins his business functions with some reluctance, as late as he can, and he ends them with joy, as early as he can. And his engines, while he is engaged in his business, are seldom at their full h.p”.