The Economy of Permanence: A Quest for a Social Order Based on Non-violence (स्थायी अर्थतन्त्र)

Economy of Permanence
pleasure of movement through the air and over water. For a few days for the
duration of the voyage, such contrivances will answer the purpose but they
cannot be substitutes for all time for the natural counterparts.
Thus is work broken up into the component parts into routine and play, and
some people are relegated for all time to do the hard routine, and a few
appropriate to themselves the play part of it. When work is so divided without
the balancing factor, the routine becomes drudgery and the play part becomes
indulgence. Both are equally detrimental to human progress and well being.
The slave dies of privations and the lord of over-indulgence. These efforts,
which have been made repeatedly through the ages, have adequately
demonstrated over and over again their impotency to lead man to his maturity.
In our own generation, this attempt to secure the pleasures apart from the
discipline has let loose on humanity the wolves of war, pestilence, famine and
death. Are we not to cry 'halt' and take note?
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