We hear a certain group of studies called the _humanities_, and it is right.

But the best school in the humanities for every man is in his own house.
With this goes, finally, the highest lesson of sport, drama, make-believe, even when we trace it up into the art-impulse--the lesson of _personal freedom_.

The child himself sets the limitations of the game, makes the rules, and subjects himself to them, and then in time pierces the bubble for himself, saying, "I will play no more." All this is the germ of self-regulation, of the control of the impulses, of the voluntary adoption of the ideal, which becomes in later life--if so be that he cling to it--the pearl of great price..