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the mind, as are repose and sustenance to recruit the 
forces of the body. 
Even from the pulpit, the true sense of the word 
recreation, which men are wont to use frivolously as 
equivalent to pleasurable excitement, has been pointed 
out—much doubtless to the wonderment of those ascetic 
geniuses, who have set up their witness against all amuse- 
ment—as if it were at best idle and unprofitable, if not 
sinful in itself, apart from its consequences. 
Much exercised, one can understand these Pharisees 
to find themselves in the spirit, on discovering that this 
- re-creation, as they are wont to style it in their nasal self- 
sanctification, is so called, because it has the acknowledged 
potency, indeed, to re-create; or make anew from the 
beginning, and restore to all its pristine elasticity, lost 
and worn out by overcarefulness concerning the things 
of to-day, the mind, which has been actually unmade by 
preternatural tension. 
That relaxation of the overtasked mind is necessary 
even to the maintenance, much more to the improvement 
of its powers, has never at any period of the world been 
doubted or disputed. 
Neque semper arcum 
Tendit Apollo—* 
has at all times been a proverb with the most Draconian 
of pedagogues; and never surely was there a time, when 
its value is so appreciable, as this age of high pressure, 
* Nor does Apollo always bend his bow.—Zor, 
