ABSTRACT

The river of human life is divided into two streams; occupation and leisure – or, to express the thing more accurately, that occupation, which is prescribed, and may be called the business of life; and that occupation, which arises contingently, and not so much of absolute and set purpose, not being prescribed: such being the more exact description of these two divisions of human life, inasmuch as the latter is often not less earnest and intent in its pursuits than the former.