and in
taking it as if to eat that one meal were the only thing we had to do
in the day. Better to eat a little nourishing food and eat it quietly
and at leisure than a large meal of the same food with a sense of rush.
This is a very important factor in keeping rested.

Then there are the many expected and unexpected times in the day when
we can take rest and so _keep rested._ If we have to wait we can sit
quietly. Whatever we are doing we can make use of the between times to
rest. Each man can find his own "between times." If we make real use of
them, intelligent use, they not only help us to keep rested, they help
us to do our work better, if we will but watch for them and use them.

Now the body is only a servant, and in all I have written above, I have
only written of the servant. How can a servant keep well and rested if
the master drives him to such an extent that he is brought into a
state, not where he won't go, but where he can't go, and must therefore
drop? It is the intelligent master, who is a true disciple of plain
common sense, who will train his servant, the body, in the way of
resting, eating and breathing, in order to fit it for the maximum of
work at the minimum of energy. But if you obey every external law for
the health and strength of the body, and obey it implicitly, and to the
letter, with all possible intelligence, you cannot keep it healthy if
the mind that owns the body is pulling it and twisting it, and
_twanging_ on its delicate machinery with a flood of resentment and
resistance; and the spirit behind the mind is eager, wretched, and
unhappy, because it does not get its own way, or elated with an
inflamed egoism because it is getting its own way.

All plain common sense in the way of health for the body falls dead
unless followed up closely with plain common sense for the health of
the mind; and then again, although when there is "a healthy mind in a
healthy body," the health appears far more permanent than when a mind
full of personal resistance tries to keep its body healthy, even that
happy combination cannot be really permanent unless there is found back
of it a healthy spirit.

But of the plain common sense of the spirit there is more to be said at
another time.

With regard to the mind, let us look and see not only that it is not
sensible to allow it to remain full of resistance, but is it not
positively stupid?

What an important factor it should be in the education of childre