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compromise which Stevenson regarded 

 as the first requisite for happiness in 

 the married state. It is a long road ; as 

 yet all may not travel it, but the less pro- 

 lific race might at any rate recognize its 

 handicap, and the futility of attempting 

 to stay the advance of the tide by any ' 

 spell of mere words. 



Point for a second remark may be 

 borrowed from the same source. 

 ' ' Happy is the man that hath his quiver 

 full of them : they shall not be ashamed, 

 but they shall speak with the enemies in 

 the gate." The Psalmist's observation 

 does not seem to have been made the 

 subject of scientific estimate, though hu- 

 manity would gain by a study of (say) 

 Priam's household in terms of well- 

 being. Happiness is an evasive thing to 

 place your finger upon, and set down 

 with reference to a decimal point, but an 

 untrained observer may be allowed to 

 express the opinion that the ratio of 



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