The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 4
[introduction]
The steady and profitable employment of the people should be the highest aim of government. Its encouragement to thrift and industry is all-important to social progress. Generally idleness is distasteful. Men like to be usefully and profitably employed. Organized for action, their highest pleasure is in activity. By wise legislation all the people should be encouraged to use their wasted faculties so as to become a hive of busy bodies—either of brain or hand.