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Now let's get started with this reading from the archives,

which was edited and adapted from Essays on the meaning of life by Carl Hilty,

published in 1903.

I have no time.

That is not only the most familiar and convenient excuse for not doing something.

It is also, one must confess, the excuse which has in it the greatest appearance of truth.

Is it a good excuse?

I must admit that within certain limits the excuse is reasonable, but I shall try to show how it is that this lack

of time occurs, and how one may at least in some degree find the time you need.

The most immediate reason for lack of time is to be found in the character of the present

age. There is today a prevailing restlessness and a continuous mood of excitement,

from which, unless one makes themselves a hermit, one cannot wholly escape.

We say that time is money, yet people who have plenty of money seem to have no time.

Thus the modern world seems pitiless in its exhortation to work. Human beings are driven like horses until they drop.

Many lives are ruined by the pace, but there are always more lives ready like horses to be driven.

Yet the results of this restless haste are

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