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The great evil of the world to-day is this aversion to work.
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gutenberg.orgJames Beck: “The great evil of the world to-day is this aversion to work.”
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Beck identifies a widespread aversion to work as a significant contemporary issue.
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If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
That vision will remain with them as long, and no longer, as there is in their hearts a conscious and willing acquiescence in its wisdom and justice.
Under the American Constitution, they are part of the fundamental law, and, as such, enforceable by judges sworn to defend the integrity of the individual as fully as the integrity of the State.
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