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THE SCENERY OF SWITZERLAND (ILLUSTRATED)
ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES 1900-1903

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THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE (WITH ILLUSTRATIONS)
THE USE OF LIFE

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BEQUEST

ESTATE OF SETTIE BLUME STERNE

JUNE 10, 1930

ON

PEACE AND HAPPINESS

BY

John Lubbock, Ist baron Avebury
THE RIGHT HON. LORD AVEBURY, P.C.

PRES. SOC. ANT.; FOR. SEC. R.A.; F.R.S., D.C.L. (OXON.), LL.D. (CANTAB. DUBL.
ST. ANDREWS ET EDIN.), M.D. (WÜRZB.), GERMAN ORD. POUR LE MÉRITE; COM.
LÉGION D'HONNEUR; F.L.S., F.G.S., F.Z.S., F.S.A., F.E.S., TRUST. BRIT. MUS.;
PRES. ROY. MIC. SOC.; PRES. RAY SOC.; ASSOC. ROY. ACAD. DES SCI. BRUX.;
HON. MEM. R. IRISH ACAD., AMER. ETHNOL. SOC., ANTHROP. SOC. WASH. (U.S.),
BRUX., FIRENZE, ANTHROP. VEREIN GRAZ, SOC. ENTOM. DE FRANCE, SOC. GÉOL.
DE LA SUISSE, AND SOC. HELVÉT. DES SCI. NAT.; MEM. AMER. PHIL. SOC. PHILAD.,
AND SOC. D'ETHN. DE PARIS; CORRESP. MEM. SOC. DES SCI. NAT. DE CHERB., BERL.
GESELLSCH. FÜR ANTHROP., SOC. ROMANA DI ANTROP., SOC. D'EMUL. D'ABBE-
VILLE; FOR. MEM. ROY. DAN. ACAD., SOC. CIENT. ARGENTINA, SOC. DE GÉOG. DE
LISB., ACAD. NAT. SCI. PHILAD., NUMIS. AND ANT. SOC. PHILAD., AMER. ENTOM.
SOC.; FOR. ASSOC. MEM. SOC. D'ANTHROP. DE PARIS; FOR. MEM. AMER. ANTIQ.
SOC.; FOR. MEM. SOC. ESPAÑOLA DE HIST. NAT., ROY. SOC. OF SCI. UPSALA ; HON.
MEM. NEW ZEALAND INST.; HON. MEM. SOC. DE SOCIOLOGIE; PATRON CALCUTTA
HIST. SOC.; VICE-PATRON ROY. ANTHROP. SOC. OF AUSTRALASIA; HON. MEM.
SOC. ANT. SCOT.; LORD RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS

COPYRIGHT EDITION

LEIPZIG

BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ

1909,

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CONTENTS.

Importance of Subject.-The Wish of all.-How are Peace
and Happiness to be secured?—Apology for Advice.—The
Lesson of Life.-Complexity of Life.—The Duty of Happi-
ness.-Self-Control.-The Folly of Anger.-The Impor-
tance of keeping one's Temper.-We might all be Good.—
Pleasures.-Epicurus: Old Legend.-Unhappiness, Causes
of.-Pain, Use of.-Imaginary Troubles.-Sin.—Luck.—
Necessity for Work. -Sloth. - Industry. —Lessons from
other Races. Burmese. -Japanese. - Civilisation and
Science. Reason. Limitations of Knowledge. Two
Views of Life: Retirement, Usefulness.-Rest.-Sunday.
-Supreme Importance of Leisure Time

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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
Socialists.-The Ancients on Progress.-The Golden Age.
-Science and Progress.-The Future of Science

Sunshine involves Shadow. - Unreasonable Complaints.-
Solomon.-Ages of Man: Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood,
Old Age.-Death. - Melancholy.-Brooding over Grie-
Living in Paradise. Freedom.

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