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Recreation
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Title: Recreation
Author: Edward Grey
Release Date: March 10, 2006 [EBook #17956]
Language: English
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RECREATION
BY
VISCOUNT GREY OF FALLODON, K.G.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE - MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE HARVARD UNION DECEMBER 8, 1919
RECREATION
It is sometimes said that this is a pleasure-seeking age. Whether it be a pleasure-seeking age or not, I doubt whether it is a pleasure-finding age. We are supposed to have great advantages in many ways over our predecessors. There is, on the whole, less poverty and more wealth. There are supposed to be more opportunities for enjoyment: there are moving pictures, motor-cars, and many other things which are now considered means of enjoyment and which our ancestors did not possess, but I do not judge from what I read in the newspapers that there is more content. Indeed, we seem to be living in an age of discontent. It seems to be rather on the in