If you haven’t read it already, take a moment to read Dorothy Sayer’s essay “Why Work?” She closes the piece with a thought-provoking quote from Jacques Maritain.

“What is required is the perfect practical discrimination between the end pursued by the workman and the need to be served by the work, so that the workman may work for his wage but the work be controlled and set in being only in relation to its own proper good and nowise in relation to the wagers earned; so that the artist may work for any and every human intention he likes, but the work taken by itself be performed and constructed for its own proper beauty alone.” — Jacques Maritain

What do you think?