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So, you see, I claim that work in a duly ordered community should be made attractive by the consciousness of usefulness, by its being carried on with intelligent interest, by variety, and by its being exercised amidst pleasurable surroundings. But I have also claimed, as we all do, that the day's work should not be wearisomely long. SO YOU SEE I CLAIM THAT WORK IN A DULY ORDERED COMMUNITY SHOULD BE MADE ATTRACTIVE BY THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF USEFULNESS BY ITS BEING CARRIED ON WITH INTELLIGENT INTEREST BY VARIETY AND BY ITS BEING EXERCISED AMIDST PLEASURABLE SURROUNDINGS BUT I HAVE ALSO CLAIMED AS WE ALL DO THAT THE DAY'S WORK SHOULD NOT BE WEARISOMELY LONG
y’s work. The other work might vary from raising food from the surrounding country to the study and practice of art and science. It is a matter of course that people engaged in such work, and being the masters of their own lives, would not allow any hurry or want of foresight to force them into enduring dirt, disorder, or want of room. Science duly applied would enable them to get rid of refuse, to minimize, if not wholly to destroy, all the inconveniences which at present attend the use of elaborate machinery, such as smoke, stench and noise; nor would they endure that the buildings in which they worked or lived should be ugly blots on the fair face of the earth. Beginning by making their factories, buildings, and sheds decent and convenient like their homes, they would infallibly go on to make them not merely negatively good, inoffensive merely, but even beautiful, so that the glorious art of architecture, now for some time slain by commercial greed, would be born again and flourish. E BUT A SHORT PART OF THE DAY'S WORK THE OTHER WORK MIGHT VARY FROM RAISING FOOD FROM THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY TO THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF ART AND SCIENCE IT IS A MATTER OF COURSE THAT PEOPLE ENGAGED IN SUCH WORK AND BEING THE MASTERS OF THEIR OWN LIVES WOULD NOT ALLOW ANY HURRY OR OF FORESIGHT TO FORCE THEM INTO ENDURING DIRT DISORDER OR WANT OF ROOM SCIENCE DULY APPLIED WOULD ENABLE THEM TO GET RID OF REFUSE TO MINIMISE IF NOT WHOLLY TO DESTROY ALL THE INCONVENIENCES WHICH AT PRESENT ATTEND THE USE OF ELABORATE MACHINERY SUCH AS SMOKE STENCH AND NOISE NOR WOULD THEY ENDURE THAT THE BUILDINGS IN WHICH THEY WORKED OR LIVED SHOULD BE UGLY BLOTS ON THE FAIR FACE OF THE EARTH BEGINNING BY MAKING THEIR FACTORIES BUILDINGS AND SHEDS DECENT AND CONVENIENT LIKE THEIR HOMES THEY WOULD INFALLIBLY GO ON TO MAKE THEM NOT MERELY NEGATIVELY GOOD INOFFENSIVE MERELY BUT EVEN BEAUTIFUL SO THAT THE GLORIOUS ART OF ARCHITECTURE NOW FOR SOME TIME SLAIN BY COMMERCIAL GREED WOULD BE BORN AGAIN AND FLOURISH
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