Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought

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Fletcher Horace. Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought

INTRODUCTION

HYPOTHESIS

THEORY

PREFATORY DEFINITIONS

THE VALUE OF SIMILE

ANALYSIS OF FEAR

BALEFUL EFFECTS OF FEAR

HOW TO ELIMINATE FEAR

HOW TO CURE SPECIAL FORMS OF FEAR

THE NOW-FIELD

PERTINENT PAGES

SUGGESTIONS IN MENTICULTURE. STOP IMPORTING; OR ERADICATION VERSUS REPRESSION

THE IMPOTENCE OF PAIN

UNHAPPY UNLESS MISERABLE

THOU SHALT NOT STRIKE A WOMAN

THE POINT-OF-VIEW

DON'T BE A SEWER

CALL SUSPICION A LIAR

I CAN'T NOT DO IT

A MILLION TO ONE ON THE UNEXPECTED

LOVE CANNOT BE QUALIFIED

LAST SOMETIMES FIRST

A BEGINNING AND NOT AN END

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

ADVERTISEMENT OF "MENTICULTURE."

Explanation of The A. B. C. Life Series

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How to be happy is the one desire common to all humanity.

How to be happier is a better statement, for there is no one so miserable but has some degree of happiness at times – enjoys some moments when he forgets to be unhappy, and looks with appreciation, even if with only dull and bleared appreciation, upon the things that are always beautiful and joyful and free.

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Increase is prodigal, and accumulation is already prodigious, so that it is no longer a question of physical means, but a question of wise distribution and adjustment, to accomplish all that society requires to insure it unremitting happiness.

Churches there are, clubs there are, lodges there are, guilds there are, and many other fraternal organizations whose aims are practically the same, but whose members are attracted together into separate groups by sympathies of traditions, race, occupations or general trend-of-thought. It would be a useless iconoclasm to separate from these or to attempt to dismember them. They are all good organizations, wherein they conserve the principles of brotherhood and promote practical altruism; and are only imperfect wherein they tolerate slavery to the fears, slavery to wealth, slavery to the harmful conventions, and slavery to the antagonisms, intolerances and other evil passions that prevent economic co-operation, harmony and happiness.

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