THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS 



generations of men is a mere mirage- figment that has 

 but to be approached to vanish into nothingness. Yet 

 it held sway for hundreds of centuries. 



And dare we say that even to this day it has van- 

 ished ? Dare you and I assert that there is no chance 

 field of our mind over which an old-time ghost stands 

 guard ? Are we quite absolutely emancipated from the 

 thraldom of superstition ? 



Are you, for example, quite certain that you could 

 wander among the musty tombs of a cemetery at night 

 with precisely the equanimity that would attend a day- 

 light visit to the place ? Of course you do not believe 

 in ghosts; yet perhaps you prefer not to have your 

 skepticism put to just this test. 



Or again, your ghost-attendants may be of another 

 quality. Perchance you are of those who pay revenue 

 to one or another of the fakirs who profess to bring 

 information as to past and future from a super-sensual 

 world. You go half- jokingly ; you disclaim any real 

 belief in these occult powers yet you go, and pay your 

 money as well. 



Perhaps ten thousand years of scientific progress 

 have placed the heritage of their achievement at your 

 beck and call; and in all that record there is not one 

 jot of evidence for the existence of a super- sensual 

 ghost-world such as that you pay to visit. But you 

 prefer to ignore this fact. You prefer to class yourself 

 with the Babylonians of say the year 3000 B. c. You 

 prefer that your waking mind should strive to rival 

 the sub-conscious mind of sleep, and live in a world 

 of unsubstantial dreams. 



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