MACMILLAN'S STANDARD LIBRARY

THE QUEST OF HAPPINESS

COPYRIGHT, 1902,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up, electrotyped, and published October, 1902. Reprinted February, 1904; November, 1905; February, 1906.

To the Memory

OF

L. C. P. AND A. R.

WHO

GAINED "THE QUEST"

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manent contribution to the literature of this subject. Believing that the parable is still the best form of instruction, in the forewords prefixed to the chapters I have, in the story of Comfortas, told the story of God's education of man, and the teachers He has appointed for the life school.

NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS.

PLYMOUTH CHURCH, BROOKLYN,
October 24, 1902.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

HAPPINESS IN ITS RELATION TO MAN'S GROWTH,

SUCCESS, AND USEFULNESS

Foreword: The Education of Comfortas

1. The quests of life.

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2. Happiness is the reward of obedience.

3. Happiness and its relation to strong work.

4. Happiness and influence.

5. Happiness an unconscious revelation of the victory

of character.

6. Ours an age when universal happiness has become

possible.

7. Some causes of unhappiness and depression.

(a) The influence of morbid literature. (b) How

the poetry of despair has depressed men. (c) The
influence of the pessimists. (d) The doubters
and "the eternal note of sadness." (e) Depres-
sion through nervous excesses. (f) The social
contrasts of life as disturbants. (g) Education
as an irritant. (h) The practice of discontent.
(i) The identification of happiness with commer-
cial success.

8. The grounds of happiness.

(a) Happiness and the maintenance of health.

(b) Happiness and the acceptance of tempera-

ment and environment. (c) The acceptance of

events that can be changed but should not.

(d) Happiness and duty. (e) Happiness and

helpfulness. (f) The art of selecting the pleas-

ant things. (g) Happiness and the sense of

God's approval.