THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE (WITH ILLUSTRATIONS) THE SCENERY OF SWITZERLAND (ILLUSTRATED) BEQUEST ESTATE OF SETTIE BLUME STERNE JUNE 10, 1930 ON PEACE AND HAPPINESS BY ohn Lubbock, 1st baron Avebury PRES. SOC. ANT.; FOR. SEC. R.A.; F.R.S., D.C.L. (OXON.), LL.D. (CANTAB. DUBL. COPYRIGHT EDITION LEIPZIG BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ 1909, + CONTENTS. Importance of Subject.-The Wish of all.-How are Peace - - Two Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes.-Life a Miracle.-Mind and Body.-Marvellous Complexity of the Body.-The Action of the Brain. Memory.-The Priceless Gift of Life.-Con- ditions of Health.-Cleanliness.-Health.-Mental Troubles. -Luxury.-Wealth, Power, and Health.-Moderation.- Page I I The Body a Temple for the Soul.-The Soul is all the World to Man. King of Edessa.-Fire of Prometheus.-Shortness of Life. Supposed Insignificance of Man, and Misery of Life: Death in that case no Evil.-Two Views of Man: Not Opposite, but Alternative.-Strength.-Woman.-Beauty. Helen.-Poets and Women.-Draupadi.—Solomon on To what should we aspire?-St. Augustine on Avarice and Ambition.-The Athenian Oath.-Cicero on Glory.-Dis- advantages of Wealth and Power.-Precipices in Life.- Shakespeare on Ambition.-Perseverance.-The Ideal of Sunshine involves Shadow. - Unreasonable Complaints.- Solomon.-Ages of Man: Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood, |