laboring man grows up and lives,--that man is, first of all, a
machine, which loads itself with food in order to sustain itself,
and that it is therefore disgraceful, wrong, and impossible to eat
and not to work; that to eat and not to work is the most impious,
unnatural, and, therefore, dangerous position, in the nature of the
sin of Sodom. Only let this acknowledgement be made, and there will
be work; and work will always be joyous and satisfying to both
spiritual and bodily requirements.

The matter presented itself to me thus: The day is divided for
every man, by food itself, into four parts, or four stints, as the
peasants call it: (1) before breakfast; (2) from breakfast until
dinner; (3) from dinner until four o'clock; (4) from four o'clock
until evening.

A man's employment, whatever it may be that he feels a need for in
his own person, is also divided into four categories: (1) the
muscular employment of power, labor of the hands, feet, shoulders,
back,--hard labor, from which you sweat; (2) the employment of the
fingers and wrists, the employment of artisan skill; (3) the
employment of the mind and imagination; (4) the employment of
intercourse with others.

The benefits which man enjoys are also divided into four categories.
Every man enjoys, in the first place, the product of hard labor,--
grain, cattle, buildings, wells, ponds, and so forth; in the second
place, the results of artisan toil,--clothes, boots, utensils, and
so forth; in the third place, the products of mental activity,--
science, art; and, in the forth place, established intercourse
between people.