THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS 



And so, interpreting and slightly expanding the 

 words of the great preacher, I say to you: If you would 

 find full joy in living, you may well aspire to climb the 

 intellectual, the aesthetic, the philosophical heights. 

 Before you have gone far up the slope you will find 

 yourself breathing a purer air than that of the valleys; 

 you will feel the exultation that comes with the recog- 

 nition of ever-widening horizons. And from your 

 joyously attained coign of vantage you may look back 

 with ever-increasing elation yet never, I trust, with- 

 out sympathetic pity on the masses of your sometime 

 associates, blindly groping there into illusory by-paths 

 of evanescent pleasure and wilfully or ignorantly shun- 

 ning the broad and inviting, even if steeper, highways 

 that might open to them vistas of profounder and 

 more abiding happiness. 



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