THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS 



mental tendencies then, but many of the more special- 

 ized tendencies are inherently the same in both. The 

 familiar traditional tales, doubtless some of them 

 founded on fact, of infants of beggars and princes being 

 transposed in the cradle without subsequent discovery, 

 illustrate this fact perhaps as forcibly as a more sober 

 argument could do. 



If further proof were needed, one has but to turn 

 to the records of common every-day experience, and 

 analyze the characteristics of such representatives of 

 the extremes of contemporary society as are personally 

 known to him. He will find the same general physical 

 qualities, the same general mental qualities, above all 

 the same general moral qualities at each end of the 

 social scale. 



Why? 



Because these general qualities have had the stamp 

 of approval of myriads of common ancestors. The 

 details of specialization differ widely, of course; as 

 widely in mental and moral directions, as, for example, 

 the unkempt beard and ragged clothes of the one 

 differ from the waxed moustache and fashionable 

 suit of the other. Such differences have been wrought 

 by different recent environing conditions, but far more 

 significant likenesses have been retained. The lovers 

 of Mary Ann settle their rival claims by resort to fisti- 

 cuffs; the lovers of Priscilla by innuendo, or repartee, 

 but the principle is the same. The hero of the Bowery 

 stage overcomes the villain perhaps by blows, at 

 least by physical prowess; the Broadway hero tri- 

 umphs through more subtle and intellectual processes. 



