Something Good in Service

Alquist: Domin, Domin, what you say sounds too much like Paradise. There was something good in service and something great in humility. There was some kind of virtue in toil and weariness.
Domin: Perhaps, but we cannot reckon with what is lost when we start out to transform the world.

Alquist R.U.R. (1920) by Karel Čapek

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Context: The factory's builder answers Domin's vision of a world where no one has to work.

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Source: Act One

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