We have allowed ourselves to be too much dominated by work and have not sufficiently used machines as a means of liberation from the thraldom of manual and mental labour. We could, if we chose, all have more leisure. We give artistic expression to their impulses, rather than so as to be convenient units in a regiment. We do not do this because we love power more than we love beauty.
Source: In praise of artificiality (written in Nov. 9, 1931 and pub. in Mortals and Others, v.1, 1975.
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