ive more. But I really can't do
another day's work on the top of my official day."

The fact is, I, the author, ought to have foreseen that I should appeal
most strongly to those who already had an interest in existence. It is
always the man who has tasted life who demands more of it. And it is
always the man who never gets out of bed who is the most difficult to
rouse.

Well, you of the minority, let us assume that the intensity of your
daily money-getting will not allow you to carry out quite all the
suggestions in the following pages. Some of the suggestions may yet
stand. I admit that you may not be able to use the time spent on the
journey home at night; but the suggestion for the journey to the office
in the morning is as practicable for you as for anybody. And that
weekly interval of forty hours, from Saturday to Monday, is yours just
as much as the other man's, though a slight accumulation of fatigue may
prevent you from employing the whole of your "h.p." upon it. There
remains, then, the important portion of the three or more evenings a
week. You tell me flatly that you are too tired to do anything outside
your programme at night. In reply to which I tell you flatly that if
your ordinary day's work is thus exhausting, then the balance of your
life is wrong and must be adjusted. A man's powers ought not to be
monopolised by his ordinary day's work. What, then, is to be done?

The obvious thing to do is to circumvent your ardour for your ordinary
day's work by a ruse. Employ your engines in something beyond the
programme before, and not after, you employ them on the programme
itself. Briefly, get up earlier in the morning. You say you cannot.
You say it is impossible for you to go earlier to bed of a night--to do
so would upset the entire household. I do not think it is quite
impossible to go to bed earlier at night. I think that if you persist
in rising earlier, and the consequence is insufficiency of sleep, you
will soon find a way of going to bed earlier. But my impression is
that the consequences of rising earlier will not be an insufficiency of
sleep. My impression, growing stronger every year, is that sleep is
partly a matter of habit--and of slackness. I am convinced that most
people sleep as long as they do because they are at a loss for any
other diversion. How much sleep do you think is daily obtained by the
powerful healthy man who daily rattles up your street in charge of
Carter Patt