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Most hobbies are to some extent constructive, but that they may be useful is
of secondary significance, and that they may be lucrative is a minor consideration.
The really important point about them is that they provide interest and recreation
for leisure hours. They are the only oases in a drab desert of routine for people who
are engaged day after day in doing work which forms but a small part of the
finisher product, and who are so accustomed to it that it no longer holds for them
either mystery or excitement. Such people show their real mettle as soon as they
reach home. The man or woman whose spare time is devoted to wood-carving or
needlework finds peculiar satisfaction in every detail. The buying of materials and
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tools is a matter to be lingered over and savoured to the full; the planning and
arrangement of the work are almost as engrossing as the work itself. Although
progress is seldom rapid, every hour or half-hour devoted to a hobby is more closely
packed with contentment and with a true sense of achievement than a whole week
occupied with routine drudgery. It is not surprising that there should be this
contrast between a hobby and regular work, especially when the latter is
monotonous, since even when it is interesting it is still the means by which wages
are earned, and must be done for that reason alone.
A hobby, on the other hand is undertaken for its own sake and it satisfies the
very deep desire experienced by most people, to create something beautiful. Very
few people are able to see the product of their wage-earning activities as a whole, or
to have something to do with it at every stage of its development. Modern industry
is too complex and intricate to allow that; consequently the humble creator works by
day, but saves his creative energies to expend upon the wholly absorbing hobby to
which he can return when he leaves his factory bench or office stool in the evening

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