Self-control and how to secure it = (L'éducation de soi-même) / by Paul Dubois ; Authorized translation by Harry Hutcheson Boyd.

  • Paul Charles Dubois
Date:
1909
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Credit: Self-control and how to secure it = (L'éducation de soi-même) / by Paul Dubois ; Authorized translation by Harry Hutcheson Boyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    be fit physically, intellectually, or morally is the sole aim of every human creature, and whatever may be the mind, conduct, opinions, or aspirations of the individual, at the bottom of his soul will always be found this primitive desire for happiness. The question is to know where to look for this joy for which humanity is athirst. Philosophers are ready to answer us, to in- struct us on the meaning of life, to show us the goal, the prize, sometimes by depending upon the dogmas of a revealed religion, some- times by building a theory of life upon a scientific basis. Further, the metaphysicians dare to raise the veil of the beyond and tell us their most fantastic dreams about immor- tality. I scarcely care for these attempts to unveil the unknowable, as long as no one is qualified to know more than another. How much bet- ter I like this Dominican of Freiburg, Swit- zerland, Weiss, who devotes an excellent vol- ume to ' ' The Art of Living.' '1 This is the 1 Die Kunst zu leben, von Fr. Albert Maria Weiss. O. Pr., Freiburg-im-Breisgau; Herdersehe Verlagshandlung 1901. [20]