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as he wished to study; he did a vast amount of work which was regarded
by many as drudgery, and he was compelled to study his art only at odd
moments. Despite all this, George Fuller became one of the most
illustrious and original of American artists. Today his pictures are in
all the leading museums, and command a high price.

What is drudgery? Dr. James Freeman Clark defined it as "work without
imagination." Anything can be made drudgery. A man can study art, or
sing, paint pictures, edit newspapers, or write books and make his work
drudgery. Drudgery is working perfunctorily. It is work without
aspiration, work without an ideal.

No man can do anything well in life, without an ideal. If a man
undertakes a certain work he must begin it by awakening and realizing
the importance of that work in the world's life. He must form a definite
ideal of the best possible way of doing that work and of its relation to
the world.

In short, no man can accomplish anything in a negative, indifferent
attitude toward his work. He must look upon it from the side of its
importance, the side of its beauty, the side that is interesting to him,
the side that shows its influence and helpfulness toward the world.

Play, to the little child--and also to the hard working man--is more
serious than work. When work begins to be perfunctory, play is the only
remedy. In such a case a man is in a dangerous rut and must adopt a new
rhythm.

"All work, and no play, makes Jack," or any other donkey, "a dull boy."

The first principle of play must be to obey our higher impulses. To play
means the ability to change our occupation. It means the ability to
obey other impulses than perfunctory ones.

Some men regard play as something low. On the contrary, notwithstanding
the "recapitulation" theory, play should be a new aspiration, a deeper
assertion of freedom, a higher opportunity for suppressed energies.

To play, certain feelings and conceptions of our nature must be
awakened. Play reveals character even more than work because it shows
the latent impulses of the man. Therefore, if in college, in school, or
in childhood, in playing with companions, the right associations are
brought to bear, the right persons are received as mates, then the very
sympathy and contact with others will cause higher aspirations, deeper
enjoyments, more spontaneous endeavor, and renewal of life. Play is
sub-conscious, it is giving way in some sense, to instinct;