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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    we see them, either by their own fault or by the cruel necessity of existence, attacked by physical, intellectual, or moral disease. Follow families and individuals in their life, in the main so short, and you will see time and misfortune go in and out of their homes and prevent the establishment of lasting joy among the majority of men. Does happiness, then, not belong to this world 1 Must one give up at the first onset, soothing one's self with the hope of eternal bliss, which will at last compensate for the injustice of destiny from which we all suffer! It would seem so, and yet I cannot believe in this terrestrial dis- couragement. Among the vicissitudes of our life too many are avoidable—those for which we are re- sponsible—for us to have the right to fold our hands and reserve our hopes for celestial joys. There are without doubt calamities that reach us, that trouble our life and which we are powerless to exorcise; but they will always befall poor humanity. Shall they nec- essarily destroy our inner happiness ? No. While one sees many people who are afraid to live, who despair at the smallest failure, [24]