【正文】
for most people, the pursuit of happiness, unless supplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be adequate as a personal rule of life. but i think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except in rare and heroic cases, be inpatible with happiness. if you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in mon. the most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see ing into existence. women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family. artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them. but there are many humbler forms of the same kind of pleasure. many men who spend their working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and unremunerated toil in their gardens, 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 been thought that man cannot b