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LONGMANS, GREEN, AND
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK AND BOMBAY
1899
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Happiness a condition of mind and often confused with the
means of attaining it
Circumstances and character contribute to it in different
degrees
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Religion, Stoicism, and Eastern nations seek it mainly by act-
English character.
Sensational philosophies and industrial and progressive nations seek it chiefly in improved circumstances.
Action of the body on happiness
Influence of predispositions in reasonings on life.
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Promotion of health by legislation, fashion and self-culture
Slight causes of life failures
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health
Effects of sanitary reform
Diminished disease does not always imply a higher level of
Two causes depressing health.
Encroachments on liberty in sanitary legislation
Sanitary education-its chief articles-its possible exaggera-
tion
Constant thought about health not the way to attain it
CHAPTER III
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Some general rules of happiness-1. A life full of work.- Happiness should not be the main object of pursuit
Carlyle on Ennui .
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3. The greatest pleasures and pains in spheres accessible to all
4. Importance and difficulty of realising our blessings while
they last
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Comparison and contrast
Content not the quality of progressive societies
The problem of balancing content and the desire for progress
What civilisation can do for happiness
CHAPTER IV
The relation of morals to happiness.-The Utilitarian justifica- tion of virtue insufficient
Power of man to aim at something different from and higher
than happiness.
General coincidence of duty and happiness.
The creation of unselfish interests one of the chief elements of
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Dangers attaching to the unselfish side of our nature.-Active
Changes of morals chiefly in the proportionate value attached to