Recreation by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G. — John Shaqi
Recreation by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G.Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, Viscount
Philosophy
Recreation by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G.
Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, Viscount
Amusements
There is a story of a man whom others called poor, and who had just
enough fortune to support himself in going about the country in the
simplest way and studying and enjoying the life and beauty of it. He was
once in the company of a great millionaire who was engaged in business,
working at it daily and getting richer every year, and the poor man said
to the millionaire, "I am a richer man than you are." "How do you make
that out?" said the millionaire. "Why," he replied, "I have got as much
money as I want and you haven't."
But it is not only in the small worries of life that we may be saved by
a right use of recreation. We all realize how in the Great War your
nation and our nation and others engaged in the war were taken out of
themselves, I was going to say lost themselves, but I ought rather to
say found themselves. It was a fine thing on your part to send two
million soldiers across the sea in so short a time to risk their lives
for an ideal. It was even more impressive to us when we heard that in
this country you had adopted conscription, and that your millions of
people, distributed over so vast an extent of continent, were so moved
by one public spirit and one patriotism and one desire to help the
Allies in the war that they were rationing themselves voluntarily with
food and fuel. That voluntary action by so many millions over so great
an extent of country was a tremendous example, showing what an ideal and
a public spirit and a call to action can do for people in making them
forget private interests and convenience and making them great.
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