THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS 



the maxim, practise does not, and perhaps cannot 

 make perfect, but it can surely do something toward it, 

 and any change from that positive degree of vagueness 

 in which most minds rest cannot but be an improvement. 

 It is a hopeful sign that the world is awakening to an 

 appreciation of the interdependence of mind and body. 

 Our generation has seen a tremendous revival of the old 

 Greek interest in athletics. The muscular system, 

 so generally neglected fifty years ago, now comes in 

 for a fair share of attention in our educational curricula. 

 It is said that ten million youth and men in America 

 alone are receiving some regular athletic training. The 

 fact is tremendously, immeasurably important. It 

 offers a practical lesson in the application of the science 

 of happiness on a grand scale. But after all it is only 

 a beginning. We must learn to keep up physical 

 athletics throughout life and not merely during college 

 days; and we must pursue the ideal of mental and 

 moral gymnastics with equal assiduity. Then we 

 shall see not the millennium, but a truly wonderful 

 generation of men and women. 



Summarising briefly now the ideas just suggested 

 anything beyond mere suggestion being obviously 

 impossible here it is clear that the science of happiness 

 connotes no necromantic phrase that will be an open 

 sesame. There is no royal road to happiness any 

 more than to learning. Indeed this follows as a matter 

 of course, since the road to happiness runs along the 

 highway of knowledge. The science of happiness 

 must connote a vast variety of details of information. 



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