To be sure, there have been always some men and women
who have made play'of work; rare individuals who have pre
ferred industry to recreation. Such men and women are the
real forces among the people, that make the world go. They
contribute nearly all of the progress. It is what such persons
have done, that makes the so-called efficiency of civilization,
in which is included the machinery that lessens drudgery, and
the things that make life more productive, more pleasurable and
more useful. -
- Everybody knows that Thomas A. Edison finds work so
much like play that he isn't willing to stop very long to sleep.
