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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

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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