Has it been observed to what extent outward idleness, or semi idleness, is necessary to a real religious life (alike for its favourite microscopic labour of self examination, and for its soft placidity called prayer, the state of perpetual readiness for the coming of God, I mean the idleness with a good conscience, the idleness of olden times and of blood, to which the aristocratic sentiment that work is that it vulgarizes body and soul is not quite unfamiliar?