HAPPINESS
ESSAYS ON THE MEANING
OF LIFE BY CARL HILTY
PROFESSOR OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
UNIVERSITY OF BERN. TRANSLATED BY
FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEABODY
PROFESSOR OF CHRISTIAN MORALS IN
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., L^TD. 1903

Great numbers of thoughtful people are justnow much perplexed to know what to make ofthe facts of life, and are looking about them forsome reasonable interpretation of the modernworld. They cannot abandon the work of theworld, but they are conscious that they have notlearned the art of work. They have to fight thebattle of life, but they are not sure what weaponsare fit for that battle. They a