--- Restfulness and Enthusiasm. At first sight these two might appear opposed to one another: but it is not so, for Enthusiasm is born of confidence and so also is Restfulness. Both are necessary for the work we have to do. Without Enthusiasm there can be no vigorous work; even if attempted, it would only be done as task-work, something which we had to grind at compulsorily, and though I would not deny that a certain amount of good and useful work may be done from a mere sense of obligation, still it will be of a very inferior quality to what is done spontaneously for love of the work itself.

Take the case of the poor artist who is the slave of the dealer and has to labour from morning to night to turn out scores of little pot-boilers by a more or less mechanical process. If he be a born artist, the fact will assert itself in spite of the conditions, and even the pot-boilers will have some degree of merit. But put the same man in more favourable circumstances where he is no longer restricted by trade requirements but is allowed to give full scope to his genius, then the artist in him rises up, he creates his own vision of nature, and masterpieces come from his brush.

This is because he is now working from enthusiasm and not from Compulsion. It is also because he is working with a sense of Restfulness; he is no longer obliged to turn out so many pot-boilers per week to meet the demands of the petty dealer but can take