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Excerpt from What Makes Us Unhappy?
Whether we contemplate man in the light of his moral and intellectual faculties, or confine our scrutiny to the study of his bodily structure and functions, it is strikingly evident that the Creat'or has designed him for happiness. But as happiness - as the history of all nations in every age of the world, plainly demonstrates, cannot be attained Without an upright life, that is, the life that is appropriately normal to man, it is clear that unless he devotes himself to such a life, he neither is happy nor can be in accord with the Divine will. On the contrary, he must be unhappy just in proportion as he fails in the realization of such a life; for precisely to the extent of such faihire, he is the slave of vice, and consequently inimical to virtue, the inevitable condition of moral well-being. These proposi tions I hold to be self-evident, that is, evident - according to Webster, Without proof or reasoning, and therefore decisive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
