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Happiness comes from exercise of functions in 

 any grade ; overcoming of opposition ; doing good to 

 others ; conquests of mind ; love of friends. All hap- 

 piness is positive and strengthening. 



Athletics ; war ; exploration ; study ; mountaineer- 

 ing. No man engaged in positive exercise of functions, 

 either high ones or low ones, ever complained of ennui. 

 Knnui means that dry rot has set in. It is Nature's 

 means of telling us so. 



" Most of the vice of the world is vice of corrosion." 

 - G. S. Hall. 



Greek philosophy: "Though life be sad, there is joy 

 in the living it." Those who do are paid as they go. 

 Hamlet ; content only in action. 



Thoreau's " word for freedom and wildness." " O, 

 to have passions like these." Myron Wilkins. " The 

 man that had a sore heel on the tramp always re- 

 members it with a grin." Myron Reed. 



" By the brand upon my shoulders, 



By the gall of clinging steel, 

 By the welt the whips have left me, 



By the scars that never heal, 

 By the eyes grown old with staring 



At the sun-wash on the brine, 

 I am paid in full for service, 



Would that service still were mine." 



Kipling. 



Freedom; a fundamental need of human beings for 

 their own development. 



Its limitations ; bounded by mutual aid. 

 William Watson's " Dream of Man." 



