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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    kind of book we need. Life has only one aim, he says—to be lived, and it is an art to live it well, to draw from it that sum of happiness for which the world desperately strives, from the voluptuary who so easily loses his way, to the religious or philosophical idealist who, in a radiance of light, sees love in his path. With an almost worldly enthusiasm that one would not look for under a cassock, our author-monk acknowledges all that we owe to the scientific work of the nineteenth century, but he immediately sobers us by remarking that all this progress has in no wise brought peace and happiness to the poor world. Who will dare to contradict him! The fact is, man does not see clearly enough before him the road that leads to hap- piness. He almost entirely seeks it in the immediate and complete satisfaction of his desires, in material and intellectual pleas- ures, in ease, in comfort, and in fortune; and we have so closely identified these two ideas of pleasure and happiness that we commonly speak of fortune's favourites as the privileged class. Go into the homes where luxury reigns, or even culture of mind, where every- [21]