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Show Love of Ease. What is there about "love of ease" that makes the strenuous one so wroth? Love of ease is a universal human trait, and has been so from the beginning of time. It is the incentive even of war. Barbarian tribes and nations na-tions fight for slaves, and even the civilized city-states of ancient Greece made war in order to reduce their captive cap-tive enemies to bondage and compel them to do all the work, so that the f.onquerors might enjoy lives of leisure. lei-sure. Love of ease is the mainspring of nearly all human activities. Men labor to obtain comforts and luxuries If the hope of enjoying the fruits of his work were gone no man would labor except under compulsion of law or of necessity. He who vociferates against love of ease assails all mankind, man-kind, including himself. Philadelphia Philadel-phia Record. |