The Happiness Of Most People

Every Now And Then We Discover In The Seething Mass Of Humanity Round Us A Person Who Does Not Seem To Need Anybody Else, And The Contrast With Ourselves Is Stinging.

Whatever We Read From Intense Curiosity Gives Us The Model Of How We Should Always Read. Plodding Along Page After Page With An Equal Attention To Each Word Results In Attention To Mere Words.

Life Is A Succession Of Lessons Enforced By Immediate Reward, Or, Oftener, By Immediate Chastisement.

We All More Or Less Consciously Note This. We Cannot Help Observing That All Serious Conversations Gravitate Towards Philosophy.

You Can Believe In God Without Believing In Immortality, But It Is Hard To See How Anyone Can Believe In Immortality And Not Believe In God.