Despite shorter working hours, the introduction of laborsaving and time-saving appliances, swifter means of trans portation, and longer vacations, mankind still lament that there is insufficient time in which to accomplish necessary tasks. The present generation seems to have accepted the general trend of thought that time has, in some inexplicable way, suffered curtailment. Yet there are still sixty minutes in every hour and twenty-four hours in each day. This indicates that the approach to our tasks is entirely mental.
A small child usually meets each day with no apparent awareness of the time element. To him, the day stretches ahead in many happy hours. He seldom nurses any concern about the day's being too short. Recalling his early years, Wordsworth alludes to this ingenuous outlook in the following lines:
Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.
