Digital World

Now except among very backward people men have lost the desire to enslave one another, yet they have not ceased trying to avoid or at any rate to lighten work. In fact more humane a race becomes, and the more men respect, the rights and liberties of their fellowmen, the more they seem to wish to avoid drudgery so as to obtain time for more congenial work or for the occupation of leisure. With the development of machinery and the speeding up of the manufacture of all classes of goods, The hours of work have decreased. They are likely to decrease still more in the future.

Machines have, in fact, become the slaves of modern life. They do more and more the work that human being do not want to do. Think for a moment of the extent to which machines do work for you. You wake, perhaps, to the hoot of a siren, emitted by a machine in a neighboring factory. You glance at a machine by your beside to make sure that the factory machine has the right time, you wash in water brought to you by the aid of machinery, heated by machinery and placed for convenience in basin made by machinery. If you are lucky enough to be in a modern school, you spend a part of your day in a school cinema, where a machine teaches you by one of the most pleasent methods, or listen to lessons broadcast by one of the most wonderful machines invented in modern times.