Excerpt from On Peace and Happiness
The Mind; The Body a Temple for the Soul; The Soul is all the World to Man; King of Edessa; Fire of Prometheus; Shortness of Life; Supposed Insignificance of Man, and Misery of Life: Death in that case no Evil; Two Views of Man; Not Opposite, but Alternative; Strength; Woman; Beauty; Helen; Poets and Women; Draupadi; Solomon on a Wise Woman; Dignity of Life; Mystery of Life; Clearness of Duty; Milton on Life;
Aspiration; To what should we aspire?; St. Augustine on Avarice and Ambition; The Athenian Oath; Cicero on Glory; Disadvantages of Wealth and Power; Precipices in Life; Shakespeare on Ambition; Perseverance; The Ideal of Socialists; The Ancients on Progress; The Golden Age; Science and Progress; The Future of Science
Contentment; Sunshine involves Shadow; Unreasonable Complaints; Solomon; Ages of Man: Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood, Old Age; Death; Melancholy; Brooding over Grievances; Living in Paradise; Freedom; Anxiety; Courage
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