Happiness Essays on the Meaning of Life (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It might he fancied that a writer thus de scrihed must he a recluse or mystic, remote from the spirit of the modern world and judging ex periences which he does not share. Quite the contrary is the fat}. The philosophy of life which he teaches is wrought out of large experience, hoth of academic and political afairs, and that which draws readers to the author is his capa ciat to maintain in the midst of important duties of puhlic service an unusual detachment of de sire and an interior quietness of mi nd. His short Essays are the Meditations of Marcus fl ureli us, told in the language of modern life; the Imita tion of Christ, expressed with the academic re serve of a modern gentleman.

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