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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    thing seems made to add charm to life, and you will often find unhappiness; perhaps even greater than in the hnts of the poor. As the good Abbe Gaime said to the yonthful J. J. Rousseau: If each man could read the hearts of others, more people would prefer to come down than to rise in the world. In a clever lecture the Italian socialist leader, En- rico Ferri, explained, in very moderate lan- guage, the claims of the fourth estate, and re- marked that the desired progress would be brought about by evolution, if the governing classes favored the movement, but, if they per- sisted in their resistance, by revolution. He added: Ladies and gentlemen, when I speak of the improvement of the lot of the working classes, I do not mean individual happiness— that is a matter of temperament. There are fellows in rags who don't know where they will dine to-night, but who are happier than kings, if kings can be happy; there are, on the contrary, those who have everything they can wish for, but who are profoundly un- happy. Real happiness is not in the realization of desires, however legitimate they may be. [22]