FROM THE EVOLUTION PHILOSOPHY. 25 



the extent of recognizing the right of your fellow-men to 

 strive after happiness as well as yourself; otherwise every- 

 body will rush pell-mell, and, amid the hopeless conflict of 

 the general scramble after happiness, there will result no 

 little misery. You cannot possibly offer any logical 

 objection to such a limitation being placed on your conduct ; 

 for remember it is but "another way of saying that nobody 

 ought to interfere unduly with your right to strive after 

 happiness. Furthermore, do not forget that happiness 

 varies in degrees of intensity. Do not suppose that the 

 character of your tastes has no effect on your happiness. 

 Eecollect that the more you cultivate all your faculties, 

 the greater is the sum and the higher is the degree of the 

 happiness which results from their exercise. You see, 

 then, that if you want to secure the greatest possible 

 happiness, there are certain conditions to which you must 

 conform, in order that you may accomplish your end. Not 

 only must you do all in your power to perfect your own 

 i development, not only must you be absolutely just in all 

 \ your dealings with your fellow-men, not only must you do 

 \ nothing to give them pain, but you must actively do every-. 

 1 thing in your power to assist them in gratifying all those 

 I desires which would help to perfect their own development. 

 C| In other words 1 as the perfect fulfilment of the moral law 

 '.constitutes the only means by which the greatest attainable 

 ViqppiTiPsg ran bft achieved, strict obedience jto__the_moral 

 law, and not the pursuit of happiness, must be made the 

 f, of lifft. Jjnjifnris conducive to 



happiness, how jioes it come about that the good jHreso 

 often unhappy, and the wicked happyj^ The explanation 

 is v^ry^i21l^---- r r'^ p rmlifi.ppinpss of the_gpod man springs 



not from his OWp Tnnra1if,y > frrit from fog- wi'p.TrPflnpqq of 



somebody_elsfiJLAa-411ustration will help to correct this 



