THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS 



Artists, examples of grouping 

 into periods, suggesting the 

 influence of genius upon geni- 

 us, p. 153. 



Association of ideas, the value of 

 new knowledge largely to be 

 gauged by the extent to which 

 it sets up new trains of ideas, 

 p. in. 



Athletes abstain from tea, coffee, 

 alcohol, and tobacco when in 

 training, p. 37. 



Athletics, interest in newly 

 aroused, p. 16; general inter- 

 est in based on a racial need, 

 p. 46-7; in relation to lon- 

 gevity, p. 47. 



Athletic sports, the specific 

 kinds most to be commended , 



P- 53- 



Attention, based on interest, the 

 key to the development of the 

 memory, pp. 8990. 



Average man, the, his memory is 

 good enough if developed, p. 

 88. 



Avocation, you should select one 

 and cultivate it; suggestions 

 as to its character, p. 196 seq. 



Avocations, of a scientific char- 

 acter, p. 1 98 seq. , of an artis- 

 tic character, the possibilities 

 in this direction are greater 

 than most people are aware, 

 p. 200 seq. 



Bacon, Francis, "the father of 

 inductive philosophy," his 

 classical maxim as to reading 

 quoted and explicated, p. 1 1 1 ; 

 quoted as to the value of 

 hours, as chapter-heading to 

 "Youth versus Age," p. 166. 



"Be brave; be brave; be brave; 

 be not too brave"; the sym- 

 bolic legend of the Greek 

 temple characterized and in- 

 terpreted, p. 135. 



Beecher, Henry Ward, American 

 preacher and publicist, his in- 

 tuitive acquisition of know- 

 ledge, p. 103. 



Beronicius of Middleburgh, said 

 to have known by heart the 



works of Virgil, Cicero, Juve- 

 nal, Homer, and Aristophanes, 

 p. 85. 



Bias of mind, through inherited 

 or environmental prejudice; 

 advice as to emancipation 

 from such bias, p. 117 seq. 



Biographical Dictionary, 1798, 

 quoted as to the saying of 

 William Forbes concerning 

 letters, p. 101. 



Blurred vision and slurred habits 

 of memorizing, p. 99. 



Bodily health, makes for clear 

 thinking, p. 12. 



Body, an indolent, finds reflec- 

 tion in an indolent mind, co- 

 ordination of this with bad 

 habits of sleeping, p. 79. 



Body, the, a machine subject to 

 fairly well known laws, p. 38; 

 close association between its 

 nourishment and the mental 

 status, p. 2 1 ; its every organ 

 in a sense a mind organ, p. 44; 

 as a source of trouble, accord- 

 ing to Plato and Socrates, p. 

 58; tends to take line of least 

 resistance, which is seldom 

 the line of progress, p. 131. 



Books, a suggestion as to what 

 civilization owes to them, p. 

 107 ; the desirability of search- 

 ing out their treasures for 

 one's self, p. 108 seq.; enable 

 us to gain the stimulus of con- 

 tact with great minds, p. no. 



Bolingbrpke, Viscount, his ex- 

 traordinary memory, pp. 

 85-6. 



Boxing, one of the best gymna- 

 sium sports, pp. 53-54- 



Boy, a tired boy furnishes an 

 object-lesson in profound and 

 recuperative sleeping, p. 69. 



Boyle, John (1707-62), quoted as 

 to the joys of domestic life, 

 chapter-heading for ' ' Life 

 Companionship," p. 211. 



Brahman, the average, learns to 

 repeat the 10,000 verses of the 

 Rig- Veda, p. 94. 



Brain, the, as a cobwebbed re- 

 ceptacle for the dust of ages, 



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