THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS 



camera instead of gun, and finds his skill taxed to the 

 utmost in bringing game within the desired range of 

 the new weapon, while the result of his prowess is to 

 leave bird and beast uninjured, yet to give him trophies 

 that are far more satisfactory than any number of 

 carcasses of slaughtered victims. 



This reference to the varied uses of photography 

 suggests what, indeed, goes without saying that you 

 need not confine your diversional interests to a single 

 line. As a sheer means of gaining pleasure, it is often 

 better that you should not do so. Of course your efforts 

 remain superficial and lack mastership somewhat in 

 proportion as they are diversified; but, on the other 

 hand, it often happens that one craft helps another, 

 and, failing of that, a diversity of avocations implies 

 a wider range, if not a profounder depth, of pleasures. 

 Few persons of varied interests regret their versatility, 

 I opine, even though they may feel that greater 

 concentration would have carried them farther in a 

 single line. 



But whether your hobbies be single or diversified, and 

 whether they follow any of the lines just suggested or 

 range into other fields that we need not enter here, there 

 is one incidental opportunity they are sure to open to 

 you that is perhaps even more important than their 

 direct influence as pleasure-bearers; the opportunity, 

 namely, to secure acquaintance with sympathetic minds 

 interested in the same pursuit. Every craft has its 

 bulletins and journals to supply indirect communica- 

 tion between its votaries; and its clubs, associations, 



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