Excerpt from The Care of the Child in Health The person of high mind and character, selects an admirable field of work, or such a field as is susceptible of being dignified by the exercise of thorough work and preparation, of thought ful attention to details, of a large grasp of the inherent potentialities 'of the vocation, which marks it off from the sordid and petty affairs of ordinary, petty life. Great results are not obtained by a preternatural flash of wondrous inspiration. On the contrary, they rest upon unremitting toil, upon tireless industry, upon an endless struggle with adverse conditions, the conquering of which means a great step toward the final evolution of civilization. This is the basis of genius, and a careful examination of the works of any great man will Show how scrupulously he has met the demands Of the Situation. Leonardo da Vinci was will ing to grind his own colors, and make his own paints in order to obtain the desired effects; and in the wide range of activities in which he was proficient there was no detail too small or too burdensome to be carefully mastered. William Morris, who was great in both poetry and art, in order to produce works of beauty became a printer, a dyer, a weaver. There was no labor too commonplace, no outlay of time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.