Old Truths and Modern Progress (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Old Truths and Modern Progress What do we live for? This momentous question might be answered in various ways, severally, more or less comprehensive and true, or shallow and false. We will answer it in its highest and most immediate sense - to secure happiness. To be rightly happy, is to be in harmony with all that is good and great. Respecting the object of existence, then, which has to be found through scrupulous self-searching and rigid comparison, much variety of opinion exists. Almost in the same breath we may be told that it consists either in the attainment of power, or the acquisition of wealth, or that it is nothing more than the mere pleasure of living with a conservative or discretionary observance of daily enjoyments. So perplexing an intermixture of sentiments is in itself corroborative of an important fact - that man is not happy. Moreover, it is certain that, unless he be constituted like the ignis fatuus - solely to deceive - this happiness is obtainable since it is universally sought after, while the persuasion moulds the actions of all men, who assiduously labour, consciously or unconsciously, in accordance with their respective notions of what is requisite to procure it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.