dressed up in red and marched off to shoot at my French or German or
Arab friend in a quarrel that I don't understand; I will rebel sooner
than do that.

Nor will I submit to waste my time and energies in making some
trifling toy which I know only a fool can desire; I will rebel sooner
than do that.

However, you may be sure that in a state of social order I shall have
no need to rebel against any such pieces of unreason; only I am
forced to speak from the way we live to the way we might live.

Again, if the necessary reasonable work be of a mechanical kind, I
must be helped to do it by a machine, not to cheapen my labour, but
so that as little time as possible may be spent upon it, and that I
may be able to think of other things while am tending the machine.
And if the work be specially rough or exhausting, you will, I am
sure, agree with me in saying that I must take turns in doing it with
other people; I mean I mustn't, for instance, be expected to spend my
working hours always at the bottom of a coal-pit. I think such work
as that ought to be largely volunteer work, and done, as I say, in
spells. And what I say of very rough work I say also of nasty work.
On the other hand, I should think very little of the manhood of a
stout and healthy man who did not feel a pleasure in doing rough
work; always supposing him to work under the conditions I have been
speaking of--namely, feeling that it was useful (and consequently
honoured), and that it was not continuous or hopeless, and that he
was really doing it of his own free will.

The last claim I make for my work is that the places I worked in,