XV 



HOW TO INVITE HAPPINESS 



HOW to invite happiness? But, you say, each 

 succeeding chapter of our work has dealt 

 with one or another phase of that question. 

 Quite true: but because of the specific text of each of 

 those chapters there were numerous ancillary channels 

 of thought which we did not enter, or, if entering, did 

 not sufficiently explore. Some of these may now claim 

 attention in a chapter of general import under a 

 caption that imposes no limitations. 



Then, again, there are fields lying quite beyond the 

 pale of our previous inquiries which we must not ignore. 

 It is not enough that a man or woman should become a 

 good observer with a clear-cut memory; should learn 

 to think clearly; should attain good physical develop- 

 ment and fair bodily health through attention to hygiene ; 

 should succeed in business, marry well, and rear a 

 family of wholesome children; all this, I say, is not 

 enough to insure happiness, though of a truth this list 

 of achievements must form a fine foundation on which 

 to ground a happy life. 



Suppose, for example, that a man of whom all these 

 things are true, should come to feel, as he goes down the 

 slope of the years, that his success in business has not 

 carried him along the lines that he would now wish to 

 have followed. Suppose he feels that he has all along 

 pursued false ideals; has gone in an opposite direction 



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