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Idleness as the Root of Mischief and Melancholy

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 1, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 6.

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Idleness as the Root of Mischief and Melancholy

IDLENESS is the badge of gentry, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the step-mother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the deadly sins, the cushion upon which the devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause not only of melancholy, but of many other diseases; for the mind is naturally active; and if it be not occupied about some honest business, it rushes into mischief or sinks into melancholy.— Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy