And it struck me, that the best thing of all would be to arrange the
occupations of the day in such a manner as to exercise all four of
man's capacities, and myself produce all these four sorts of
benefits which men make use of, so that one portion of the day, the
first, should be dedicated to hard labor; the second, to
intellectual labor; the third, to artisan labor; and the forth, to
intercourse with people. It struck me, that only then would that
false division of labor, which exists in our society, be abrogated,
and that just division of labor established, which does not destroy
man's happiness.

I, for example, have busied myself all my life with intellectual
labor. I said to myself, that I had so divided labor, that writing,
that is to say, intellectual labor, is my special employment, and
the other matters which were necessary to me I had left free (or
relegated, rather) to others. But this, which would appear to have
been the most advantageous arrangement for intellectual toil, was
precisely the most disadvantageous to mental labor, not to mention
its injustice.

All my life long, I have regulated my whole life, food, sleep,
diversion, in view of these hours of special labor, and I have done
nothing except this work. The result of this has been, in the first
place, that I have contracted my sphere of observations and
knowledge, and have frequently had no means for the study even of
problems which often presented themselves in describing the life of
the people (for the life of the common people is the every-day
problem of intellectual activity). I was conscious of my ignorance,
and was obliged to obtain instruction, to ask about things which are