ken in so far that they cannot look over the edge.

It is true that it is easier to do good hard work in the lines to which
one has been accustomed than to do easy work which is strange. Nerves
will go on in old accustomed habits--even habits of tiresome
strain--more easily than they will be changed into new habits of
working without strain.

The mind, too, gets saturated with a sense of fatigue until the fatigue
seems normal, and to feel well rested would--at first--seem abnormal.
This being a fact, it is a logical result that an habitually tired and
strained mind will indignantly refuse the idea that it can do more work
and do it better without the strain.

There is a sharp corner to be turned to learn to work without strain,
when one has had the habit of working with it. After the corner is
turned, it requires steady, careful study to understand the new normal
habit of working restfully, and to get the new habit established.

When once it is established, this normal habit of work develops its own
requirements, and the working without strain becomes to us an essential
part of the work itself.

For taken as a whole, more work is done and the work is done better
when we avoid strain than when we do not. What is required to find this
out is common sense and strength of character.

Character grows with practice; it builds and builds on itself when once
it has a fair start, and a very little intelligence is needed if once
the will is used to direct the body and mind in the lines of common
sense.

Intelligence grows, too, as we use it. Everything good in the soul
grows with use; everything bad, destroys.

Let us make a distinction to begin with between "rest while you work"
and "working restfully."

"Rest while you work" might imply laziness. There is a time for rest
and there is a time for work. When we work we should work entirely.
When we rest we should rest entirely.

If we try to mix rest and work, we do neither well. That is true. But
if we work restfully, we work then with the greatest amount of power
and the least amount of effort.

That means more work and work better done after the right habit is
established than we did before, when the wrong habit was established.
The difficulty comes, and the danger of "getting fired," when we are
changing our habit.

To obviate that difficulty, we must be content to change our habit more
slowly. Suppose we come home Saturday night all tired out; go to bed
and go