THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS 



attention because, with the enormous growth of city 

 populations that characterises our age, it is becoming 

 more and more a factor to be reckoned with. 



What, then, shall we say to the young men and women 

 who have reached years of discretion, yet are prone to 

 accept the maxim of Leibnitz, that marriage is perhaps 

 " a good thing, but one upon which the wise man should 

 ponder all his life"? 



A whimsical person might reply with fair enough 

 show of reason that we may as well say nothing at all, 

 since very few persons, young or old, marry merely be- 

 cause they are advised to do so, or for any reason except 

 to please their individual tastes. He might point out 

 further that the larger number of these very enthusiasts 

 aforementioned, after fortifying themselves with seem- 

 ing security in the pursuit of their career in single bless- 

 edness, find themselves, while still at a tender age, 

 and quite unable to care for a family, married and settled 

 down into conventional channels at the instance of some 

 irresistible pair of eyes that their early enthusiasm 

 had forgotten to reckon with. Nevertheless in view 

 of the exceptional cases that do here and there carry 

 out their early resolve, and as a solace to the vanquished 

 pride of the great majority who are carried off their feet 

 to the forgetting of their predeterminations, I venture 

 to offer two reasons why the ambitious youth or maiden, 

 of all others, should have a helpmate. 



My first reason is this: That great art, in its very 

 nature, is altruistic; therefore the would-be artist, in 

 whatever line, should cultivate the altruistic spirit. He 

 can never become too sympathetic with humanity, 



