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RAHWAY, N. J.
CHAPTER
I have called this little collection of articleswhich I have written “THREETHINGS” because to me there seem tobe just three essentials to strive after in life.Truth—Common Sense and Happiness. To beable to see the first enables us to employ thesecond, and so realise the third. And in thesepapers I have tried to suggest some points whichmay be of use to others who, like myself, areendeavouring to reason out ideas to a good end.
How often one sees people who could be veryhappy, and who yet with incredible blindnessand stupidity are running their heads againststone walls (or feather beds!) and destroyingall chance of peace for themselves, their mates,and their households!
Everything is very simple when it is analyseddown to what nature meant in the affair—and bydoing this one gets a broader perspective.
For instance, nature meant one thing in theconnection of man and woman—and civilisationhas grafted quite another meaning into it, and the two things are often at war in the Statecalled marriage! In the chapters devoted tothis subject I have tried to exploit some pointswhich are not generally faced, in the hope that ifunderstood they might help towards Happi