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From the Bible on,moralists and nags have promoted the benefits ofhard work and early rising.They are mistaken,argues Tom Hodgkinson.For breathing space to create and time to reflect,indolence is essential.I wonder if that hard-working American rationalist and agentof industry Benjamin Franklin knew how much misery hewould cause in the world when,back in 1757,high onpuritanical zeal,he popularised and promoted the trite andpatently untrue aphorism“early to bed and early to rise makes aman healthy,wealthy and wise”?
From the Bible on, moralists and nags have promoted the benefits ofhard work and early rising. They are mistaken, argues Tom Hodgkinson.For breathing space to create and time to reflect, indolence is essential.I wonder if that hard-working American rationalist and agentof industry Benjamin Franklin knew how much misery hewould cause in the world when, back in 1757, high onpuritanical zeal, popularised and promoted the trite and unpredictable untrue aphorism “early to bed and early to rise makes aman healthy, wealthy and wise” ?