ht mood and expressing the right
feeling and so exercising the parts of his body as to express normally
and more adequately that mood, men will develop not only health,
strength and long life; but will also develop a nobler and stronger
personality and more heroic and courageous endurance.

The exercises, accordingly, should be applied to the simplest movements
of every-day life. They must not be taken as something separate from
life, but as an essential part of it, as necessary to life as a smile is
to the face.

VII

WORK AND PLAY

"Blessed," says Carlyle, "is the man who has found his work. Let him
seek no other blessing."

A man out of work is one of the saddest of all sights. There possibly is
a sadder one, the man who has lost the power to play. The child in whom
the spirit of play has been crushed out is saddest of all.

Work is natural. One who does not love to work is greatly to be pitied.
Fortunately, such people are rare. When a man finds his work and becomes
actively occupied with it he is happy. He, however, often overdoes it
and the difficulty is not to work but to play.

Usually it is thought that there is antagonism between work and play. On
the contrary, they are more alike than most people think.

According to William Morris, "Art is the spirit of play put into our
work." The union of work and play is absolutely necessary to human
nature.

By work we generally mean something that comes as a duty, something
which we are compelled to do or something which we must do from
necessity in order to win a livelihood.

Play is usually regarded as something that is pure enjoyment and
spontaneous. A recent cartoon pictured a boy complaining because his
mother had asked him to carry a small rug up to the top of the house,
then portrayed the same boy, after a ten-mile trudge, climbing a steep
hill with a load of golf sticks, the perspiration streaming down his
face, saying, "This is fine!"

The same task may therefore be regarded as work or play according to the
point of view. The difference is the degree of enjoyment, the attitude
or feeling toward the thing to be done.

We can control our attention, we can look for interesting things in
almost any effort. In either work or play we require a rhythmic
alternation between enjoyment and resolute endeavor.

The principles advocated in this book and its companion, "The Smile,"
should prepare a man for the work and the play of life. Exercises tak