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The Pursuit of Happiness

by Daniel G. Brinton

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2Part I — Happiness as the Aim of Life
  3. 3Part II — How Far Our Happiness Depends on Nature and Fate
  4. 4Part III — How Far Our Happiness Depends on Ourselves
  5. 5Part IV — How Far Our Happiness Depends on Others
  6. 6Part V — The Consolations of Affliction
  7. 7Part I — I — Is a Guide to Happiness Possible? And, If Possible, Is…
  8. 8II — The Definition of Happiness
  9. 9III — The Relative Value of Pleasures
  10. 10IV — The Distribution of Happiness
  11. 11V — Principles of a Self-Education for the Promotion of One’s Own H…
  12. 12Part II — I — Our Bodily and Mental Constitutions
  13. 13II — Our Physical Surroundings
  14. 14III — Luck and Its Laws
  15. 15Part III — I — Our Occupations, Those of Necessity and Those of Choice
  16. 16II — Money-making, Its Laws and Its Limits
  17. 17III — The Pleasures We May Derive From Our Senses
  18. 18IV — The Pleasures We May Derive From Our Emotions
  19. 19V — The Pleasures We May Derive From the Intellect
  20. 20VI — The Satisfaction of the Religious Sentiment
  21. 21VII — The Cultivation of Our Individuality
  22. 22Part IV — I — What Others Give Us: Safety, Liberty, Education
  23. 23II — What We Owe Others: Morality, Duty, Benevolence
  24. 24III — The Practice of Business and the Enjoyment of Society
  25. 25IV — On Fellowship, Comradeship and Friendship
  26. 26V — Love, Marriage, and the Family Relation
  27. 27Part V — I — The Removal of Unhappiness
  28. 28II — The Inseparable Connection of Pleasure and Pain
  29. 29III — The Education of Suffering

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