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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 68

Section VIII. Of Recreation

Section VIII. Of Recreation.

43. Q. What is recreation?

A. Amusement, diversion, and change.

44. Q. What should be its object?

A. As we have already learned that work is a necessity and duty of life, recreation should be treated as a relief and relaxation to the mind, or body, or both.

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45. Q. How does it accomplish this?

A. By drawing the mind off to new objects, or by securing the exercise of the body, and thus lessening the strain caused by following the line of duty.

46. Q. What are the chief forms of recreation?

A. They are twofold: those which affect the body, and those which affect the mind; or, physical and intellectual.

47. Q. State the physical forms of recreation.

A. They include athletic exercises and games, and those amusements which tend to strengthen and exercise the body.

48. Q. And the intellectual.

A. Intellectual recreation includes all such occupations of the mind as rest and revive the intellectual faculties.

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49. Q. What rules should guide us in our recreations?

A. Duty should not be neglected to enjoy recreation. Also, our recreations should be rational and humane, not doing injury to the rights or feelings of others.

50. Q. And what further?

A. We should only pursue such recreations as will bear reflecting upon, and should avoid all such as are dishonorable, cowardly, and not worthy of a noble mind.

51. Q. State the reasons.

A. Because the possession of an approving conscience alone gives true pleasure and happiness to the mind; whilst enjoyment derived from acts which are wrong and selfish debases and degrades.

52. Q. What then should we aim at in our recreations?

A. We should follow only those recreations which will improve us both in body and in mind.