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The Steps of Life: Further Essays on Happiness · Karl Hilty — chapter 20 of 21 · ~447 words · public domain

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Translated by the Rev. Francis G. Peabody, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in Harvard University

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Professor Hilty’s essays long ago took rank in Europe as classics in the sphere of personal culture in ethics and religion.

Without haste, without fuss, he seems to see more deeply into the ordinary experiences of human life than most men can. There is with all his insight a simple gentleness and sympathy in his way of treating the deepest things of life, the primal motives that stir the soul. He discusses the Art of Work, How to Fight the Battles of Life, Good Habits, The Art of Having Time, Happiness, The Meaning of Life.

By THOMAS R. SLICER

Pastor of the Church of All Souls, New York, Author of “The Power and Promise of the Liberal Faith,” etc.

The Way to Happiness

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Dr. Slicer has written a practical, readable book based on the belief that a great many unhappy folk are so not because there has been any increase in the world’s misery, but because the consolations upon which people have depended in the past seem to them inadequate. The author therefore first restates certain old, old principles, which seem to have lost force from detachment, in the forms of conception, and in the speech, of modern life. The making of a character which is for itself a sufficient consolation seems to him the only permanent relief from unhappiness, and he sets forth the positive principles on which such a character is based.

By HENRY C. KING

President of Oberlin College

=Rational Living=

“An unusually valuable book on practical ethics ... admirably adapted for clubs and classes which wish to study ethical questions, and equally valuable for all who wish the latest and clearest information on such subjects.”--AMORY H. BRADFORD, First Congregational Church, Montclair, N.J.

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=Personal and Ideal Elements in Education=

“I am reading it with great profit. It is a magnificent utterance.”--WILLIAM F. ANDERSON, Secretary Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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=Reconstruction in Theology=

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=Theology and the Social Consciousness=

“A valuable contribution to current discussion ... it is not scholastic; it is not phrased in the technical language of the schools; the thoughtful layman will readily understand it.”--The Outlook.

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By the Rev. HUGH BLACK

Author of “Friendship,” “Work,” etc.

=The Practice of Self-Culture=

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By FRANCIS G. PEABODY

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