There is only one reason why all grown-up people do not
play with toys, and it is a fair reason. The reason is that
playing with toys takes so very much more time and trouble
than anything else. Playing as children means playing is the
most senous thing in the world, and as soon as we have
small duties or small soITOWS we have to abandon to some
extent so enormous and ambitious a plan of life We have
enough strength for politics and commerce and art and
philosophy, we have not enough strength for play This is a
truth which every one will recognize who, as a child, has ever
played with anything at all. My journalistic work, which earns
money, is not pursued with such awful persistence as that
work which earned nothing.
Take the case of blocks. If you publish a book tomorrow,
your work may be laborious, but it is fundamentally frivolous.
It is not serious as the work of a child piling one block on the
other is serious, for the simple reason that if your book is a
bad book, no one will ever be able ultimately and entirely to
prove to you. Whereas if the balance of block is a bad
balance of blocks, it will simply tumble down. And if I know
anything of children, they will work to build again Whereas, if
I know anything of authors, nothing would induce you to write
your book again, or even to think of it again if you could help
it.
Based upon this excerpt from a longer essay, what else would the author most likely discuss?
A. how the types of toys children play with shapes who they become
B.
how adults should have a more childlike perspective toward life
C. how toys are generally more interesting to people than books are
OD. how the toy industry should be focused on children and adults