(_b_) rank, or (_c_) sovereignty, or (_d_) glory, or (_e_)
pleasure, because they think thereby to attain either (_a_)
contentment, (_b_) reverence, (_c_) power, (_d_) renown, or (_e_)
gladness of heart, in one or other of which they severally imagine
happiness to consist.--CH. III. Philosophy proceeds to consider
whether happiness can really be secured in any of these ways, (_a_)
So far from bringing contentment, riches only add to men's
wants.--CH. IV. (_b_) High position cannot of itself win respect.
Titles command no reverence in distant and barbarous lands. They
even fall into contempt through lapse of time.--CH. V. (_c_)
Sovereignty cannot even bestow safety. History tells of the
downfall of kings and their ministers. Tyrants go in fear of their
lives. --CH. VI. (_d_) Fame conferred on the unworthy is but
disgrace. The splendour of noble birth is not a man's own, but his
ancestors'.--CH. VII. (_e_) Pleasure begins in the restlessness of
desire, and ends in repentance. Even the pure pleasures of home may
turn to gall and bitterness.--CH. VIII. All fail, then, to give
what they promise. There is, moreover, some accompanying evil
involved in each of these aims. Beauty and bodily strength are
likewise of little worth. In strength man is surpassed by the
brutes; beauty is but outward show.--CH. IX. The source of men's
error in following these phantoms of good is that _they break up
and separate that which is in its nature one and indivisible_.
Contentment, power, reverence, renown, and joy are essentially
bound up one with the other, and, if they are to be attained at
all, must be attained _together_. True happiness, if it can be
found, will include them all. But it cannot be found among the
perishable things hitherto considered.--CH. X. Such a happiness
necessarily exists. Its seat is in God. Nay, God is very happiness,
and in a manner, therefore, the happy man partakes also of the