Activity

Again and again the penitent in his ‘novitiate’ succumbs to obscurely-indicated ‘temptations’:

Works were the snares of pride and the best works were mingled with the dross of sin;

It is evident that there was, in 1800, casuistry enough in the theology of all the available English churches to reinforce the manufacturer’s own sense of moral self-esteem.

‘in training human beings to renounce their desultory habits of work, and to identify themselves with the unvarying regularity of the complex automaton’

a movement which succeeded, very largely, in extirpating this insidious ‘violation’ of the Lord’s Day