The Pursuit of Happiness
by Daniel G. Brinton
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About this eBook
- Author
- Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899
- Title
- The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Studies and Strowings
- Credits
- Produced by Julia Miller, Carol Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BJ: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Ethics, Social usages, Etiquette, Religion
- Subject
- Happiness
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 57071
- Release Date
- April 30, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS — DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D., LL.D.
- 3.Untitled
- 4.Untitled
- 5.Untitled
- 6.CONTENTS. — PART I. Happiness as the Aim of Life. — PART II. How Far Our Happiness Depends on Nature and Fate. — PART III. How Far Our Happiness Depends on Ourselves. — PART IV. How Far Our Happiness Depends on Others. — PART V. The Consolations of Affliction.
- 7.PART I. — I. Is a Guide to Happiness Possible? And, if Possible, is it Desirable?
- 8.II. The Definition of Happiness.
- 9.III. The Relative Value of Pleasures.
- 10.IV. The Distribution of Happiness.
- 11.V. Principles of a Self-Education for the Promotion of One’s Own Happiness. — PART II. — I. Our Bodily and Mental Constitutions. — II. Our Physical Surroundings. — III. Luck and its Laws. — PART III. — I. Our Occupations, those of Necessity and those of Choice. — II. Money-making, its Laws and its Limits. — III. The Pleasures we may Derive from our Senses. — IV. The Pleasures we may Derive from our Emotions. — V. The Pleasures we may Derive from the Intellect. — VI. The Satisfaction of the Religious Sentiment. — VII. The Cultivation of Our Individuality. — PART IV. — I. What Others Give Us: Safety, Liberty, Education. — II. What we Owe Others: Morality, Duty, Benevolence. — III. The Practice of Business and the Enjoyment of Society. — IV. On Fellowship, Comradeship and Friendship.
- 12.V. Love, Marriage, and the Family Relation. — PART V. — I. The Removal of Unhappiness.
- 13.II. The Inseparable Connection of Pleasure and Pain. — III. The Education of Suffering.
- 14.INDEX. — Transcriber’s Note:
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