It is not merely that we read too much, though most of us (however trashy our reading) do. But we also talk too much, keep ourselves too continuously absorbed, between business and amusement, by external things. The train, the motor, the kinematograph, the telephone, the wireless, almost every modern invention, makes each new inroads on our scanty residue of fallow time. Unless we are to end by becoming incurably shallow, a generation without nobility of conscience, without passions beyond the body's or ideas beyond lip phrases, we must offer a deliberate resistance to this tendency. It was a common habit with the best men of earlier times to set aside at least a brief interval for reflection at the end of every day. When the end of the week came the Sunday provided a fuller opportunity. Much may be said against the old Sunday and much in favour of the Sunday which we have substituted; but the loss of calms and silences is a serious loss." —"Daily Chronicle."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 10134, 11 June 1924, Page 2
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