THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS 



dens the heart, brightens the mind, paints its glow of 

 beneficence on the face even. The act of simple jus- 

 tice, free from the taint of prejudice or self-exaltation 

 none the less suffuses the soul with the warmth of beati- 

 tude. No child so young that it does not instinctively 

 recognize the difference between that warmth and the 

 chill shadow of a selfish deed ; no man so old or so hard- 

 ened but that he too feels that difference. No sane man 

 is so perverted from the standards of normal conscious- 

 ness as not to know, in his heart of hearts, which line 

 of action makes for happiness and which for misery; 

 however ill may be his choice in practise. 



"The just man is the freest of all men from dis- 

 quietude ; but the unjust man is a perpetual prey to it," 

 said Epicurus; and what was true in his generation 

 is no less true in ours, though more than half a hundred 

 generations have intervened. Treat your fellow man 

 with justice. All other admonitions are practically 

 summed up and implied in that one. 



For in order to be just, you must be free from preju- 

 dice; and freedom from prejudice implies the very 

 highest flight of mental culture. 



To be just, you must take into full account the an- 

 tecedents of your fellow man: his innate capacities 

 and weaknesses; and this implies sympathy and al- 

 truism. 



To be just, you must recognize your own delinquen- 

 cies, your own conflicting tendencies of character; and 

 this will teach you charity. 



To be just, you must be honest, honorable, upright 

 in thought and deed; and as you follow the mandates 



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