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are two widespread views of enjoyment which seem far apart, but which, while from each of them we may learn something, have in common a grave defect.

We may call them the indolent view and the ascetic view. Commonplace people generally take the indolent view, though it does not on the whole represent even their practice. For them, as they think, enjoyment and recreation chiefly mean freedom from compulsory toil — amusement, entertainment. This freedom from