secretive, or distrustful, the resource is once more free self-expression. To open wide the gates for a time will be to discover in due course how to utilise the energy thus set free. Strictly speaking, we have always used the power in question, for inhibition requires energy; but the structure was rigid and energy was lost in impeded endeavour to be free while under restraint on every side.

Life is in general a progressive quest for more satisfactory forms of expression. The forces that are within us inevitably spend their activities in some fashion. Our part is to aid in providing channels that correspond with our interior growth, taking our clues in part from the restlessness which appears in new forms as time goes on. Half the problem is to know what the difficulty is, why we are dissatisfied. The life that is stirring within us will reveal its own needs if we observe it at the point of inward striving, and once more yield ourselves to the spontaneous play. The prompting of the moment, or the compelling idea, is often far more serviceable as a clue than the consciously chosen plan. If I write to-day, for example, on the subject that fills my mind I shall probably write better than on the topic I settled upon last night and sought to give myself so fully to this morning. That is to say, the creative life within me seeks channels of its own, and indicates when it is ready to produce in a given direction. Consequently,