PART IV.. How Far Our Happiness Depends on Others.

How Far Our Happiness Depends on Others.

I. What Others Give Us: Safety, Liberty, Education.

Man’s Dependence on Society for his Safety.――Security the Aim of Government.――Two Theories of Government.――Justice as the Aim of Government.――Freedom the Aim of Law.――Another Theory of Government.――Knowledge the Brother of Liberty.――Education a Necessity.――Defective Education of Women.――What it Should Be.――Study Should Be Made a Pleasure.――Man’s Dependence on Others.

STROWINGS, pp. 195-205

II. What we Owe Others: Morality, Duty, Benevolence.

Happiness and Virtue are Independent Aims.――Morality and the Moral Sense not the Same.――What Morality Is.――No Universal Moral Precepts.――The Dualism of Morals.――The Sense of Duty.――The Pleasures of the Moral Sense.――What “A Clear Conscience” Means.――What is “The Chief End of Man.”――The Moral Sense Opposes Moral Laws.――The Benevolent Emotions.

STROWINGS, pp. 206-215

III. The Practice of Business and the Enjoyment of Society.

The Value of Association.――Society Should Not Ask the Sacrifice of the Individual.――Maxims for Dealing with Men: First, Distrust; Second, Trust.――What “Society” is.――The Drawing-room as the Shrine of Civilization.――Good-will the Basis of Good Society.――Ordinary People are the Most Agreeable.――Maxim for Success in Society.――The Aim of Society.――Good Society Not Selfish.――The Power of Society.――What Politeness is.――Society Conversation.――The Expert in Small Talk.

STROWINGS, pp. 216-227

IV. On Fellowship, Comradeship, and Friendship.

Man’s Highest Pleasure is in Humanity.――What Fellowship Means.――Mutuality of Interests the Basis of Social Progress.――But the Individual must be Respected.――Comradeship is Based on Tastes in Common.――It is a Substitute for Friendship.――Examples of it.――The Meaning of Friendship.――What Weakens and what Strengthens it.――It should be Carefully Cultivated.――Friendship Between Men and Women.――Examples of it.

STROWINGS, pp. 228-237

V. Love, Marriage, and the Family Relation.

The Single Life Ever Incomplete.――The Holiness of Maternity.――The Emotion of Love Explained.――Love and Beauty.――Love Immortalized in Posterity.――The History of Marriage.――The Three Conditions of Marriage.――The Question of Divorce.――What True Marriage Means.――Opinions of Thinkers About Divorce.――The Family as the Object of Marriage.――The Family Tie Among Us.

STROWINGS, pp. 238-247