CONTENTS


CHAPTER I.

THE NEW IMPORT OF THE QUESTION.
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The question may seem vague and useless; but if we consider its
real meaning we shall see that it is not so 1

In the present day it has acquired a new importance 2

Its exact meaning. It does not question the fact of human happiness 3

But the nature of happiness, and the permanence of its basis 4

For what we call the higher happiness is essentially a complex
thing 5

We cannot be sure that all its elements are permanent 7

Without certain of its elements it has been declared by the wisest
men to be valueless 8

And it is precisely the elements in question that modern thought
is eliminating 11

It is contended that they have often been eliminated before; and