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furnished with recreation—the pleasant, grateful 
rest of his tired, but not over-fatigued, with the 
active, delightful employment of his fresh facul 
ties. To it we hope all work shall become 
more and more assimilated. 
The wise man tells us that ‘ There is nothing 
better for a man than that he should eat and 
drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his 
labour.’^ ‘ Happiness is health.’ And not on 
the workman only, but likewise on his work, 
does his delight in it act beneficially. It may 
be laid down as a rule that the highest excel 
lence in any work, whether mental or physical, 
can only be attained by aid of the workman s 
pleasure in it. Of mind and body, the best 
and strongest, most vigorous and graceful, 
efforts are put forth, not under the pressure 
of overwhelming and harassing tasks, but as 
the spontaneous, exultant efforts of a system 
attuned by the ease of nerve and muscle springy 
and elastic with the latent power, eager for use, 
stored up in them by rest ; of a system perme- 
ated with the feeling of joy, or at least calm 
satisfaction, in exerting itself. 
But intcMpcvate labouv destroys all the 
1 Eccles. ii. 24.