THE problem of happiness is the problem of problems. The problem of problems did I say? Nay, I understate the case-the only problem is the problem of happiness. For savage and for civilised man alike; for hod-carrier and for psychologist; for the little child prattling at its mother's knee and for the old man tottering to the grave; for blooming maiden and for ancient beldame; for beast and bird and reptile even; for each and every living thing in all the b~ .. oad expanse of land and sea and sky, -the ever present, ever insistent, inexorable problem of happiness is the don1inant motive of every act. Back of every conscious movement lies the loadstone of a desire. Back of every instinctive motion of the lowliest organism, every reflex twitch of a muscle of beast or of man, is a chain of organic impulses leading no less surely, though it be by the tortuous route of lieredity, to a primeval desire. And in the last analysis all desires, whatever their seeming diversityTable of Contents...

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