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John Dewey: “To-day, so great and powerful is the sweep of the industrial current, the person of leisure is usually an idle person.”

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To-day, so great and powerful is the sweep of the industrial current, the person of leisure is usually an idle person.
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John Dewey

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Dewey reflects on the changing nature of leisure in relation to industrial society.

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