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n call happy, you will see that they allhave certain things in mon. The most important of these things is an activity which at mostgradually builds up something that you are glad to see ing into existence. Women who takean instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up afamily. Artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems goodto them. But there are many humbler forms of the same kind of pleasure. Many men who spendtheir working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and unremunerated toil in theirgardens, and when the spring es, they experience all the joys of having created beauty. The whole subject of happiness has, in my opinion,been treated too solemnly. It had beenthought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life or a religion. Perhaps those whohave been rendered unhappy by a bad theory may need a better theory to help them torecovery, just as you may need a tonic when you have been ill. But when things are normal aman should be healthy w