and the same wear and tear of mind that might have been at least
usefully and healthfully expended on the real business of life is
often wasted in petty and imaginary vexations, such as breed and
multiply in the unoccupied brain." (8)

Even on the lowest ground--that of personal enjoyment--constant
useful occupation is necessary. He who labours not, cannot
enjoy the reward of labour. "We sleep sound," said Sir Walter
Scott, "and our waking hours are happy, when they are employed;
and a little sense of toil is necessary to the enjoyment of
leisure, even when earned by study and sanctioned by the
discharge of duty."

It is true, there are men who die of overwork; but many more die
of selfishness, indulgence, and idleness. Where men break down by
overwork, it is most commonly from want of duly ordering their
lives, and neglect of the ordinary conditions of physical health.
Lord Stanley was probably right when he said, in his address to
the Glasgow students above mentioned, that he doubted whether
"hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt
anybody."

Then, again, length of YEARS is no proper test of length of LIFE.
A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it, and what he
feels in it. The more useful work the man does, and the more he
thinks and feels, the more he really lives. The idle useless man,
no matter to what extent his life may be prolonged, merely
vegetates.

The early teachers of Christianity ennobled the lot of toil by