Self-Regarding Duties and Virtues—Industry— Rest

Chapter XXXVI

General statements referring to the nature and origin of self-regarding duties and virtues, pp. –268.—Man naturally inclined to idleness, pp. –271.—Among savages either necessity or compulsion almost the sole inducement to industry, ibid.—Savages who enjoin work as a duty or regard industry as a virtue, p. sq.—Industrial activity looked down upon as disreputable for a free man, p. sq.—Contempt for trade, p. . Progress in civilisation implies an increase of industry and leads to condemnation of idleness, ibid.—Idleness prohibited by law in ancient Peru p. sq.—Industry enjoined in ancient Persia, p. sq.—In ancient Egypt, p. .—In ancient Greece, p. sq.—Greek views on agriculture, p. .—On trade and handicrafts, p. sq.—Roman views on labour, p. sq.—The Christian doctrine on the subject, pp. –282.—Not applicable to laymen, p. .—Modern views on labour, p. sq.—Rest regarded as a duty, p. .—Work suspended after a death, p. sq.—On certain other occasions, especially in connection with changes in the moon, pp. –286.—Tabooed days among the peoples of Semitic stock, pp. –288.—The Jewish Sabbath, p. sq.—The seventh day among the Assyrians and Babylonians, p. sq.—The Christian Sunday, p. sq.