# An apology for idlers, and other essays

Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69825

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## Summary

Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of _lèse_-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade. And yet this should not be. Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognised in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself. It is admitted that the presence of people who refuse to enter in the great handica...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-apology-for-idlers-and-other-essays-69825/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-apology-for-idlers-and-other-essays-69825/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-apology-for-idlers-and-other-essays-69825/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-apology-for-idlers-and-other-essays-69825/chapters/4/index.md)