The Map of Life. William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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СКАЧАТЬ Exaggerated regard for the future.—A happy childhood

       Choice of pleasures.—Athletic games

       The intellectual pleasures

       Their tendency to enhance other pleasures.—Importance of specialisation

       And of judicious selection

       Education may act specially on the desires or on the will

       Modern education and tendencies of the former kind

       Old Catholic training mainly of the will.—Its effects

       Anglo-Saxon types in the seventeenth century

       Capriciousness of willpower—heroism often succumbs to vice

       Courage—its varieties and inconsistencies

       The circumstances of life the school of will.—Its place in character

       Dangers of an early competence.—Choice of work

       Choice of friends.—Effect of early friendship on character

       Mastery of will over thoughts.—Its intellectual importance

       Its importance in moral culture

       Great difference among men in this respect

       Means of governing thought

       The dream power—its great place in life

       Especially in the early stages of humanity

       Moral safety valves—danger of inventing unreal crimes

       Character of the English gentleman

       Different ways of treating temptation

       CHAPTER XIII

      MONEY

      Henry Taylor on its relation to character

       Difference between real and professed beliefs about money

       Its relation to happiness in different grades of life

       The cost of pleasures

       Lives of the millionaires

       Leaders of Society

       The great speculator

       Expenditure in charity.—Rules for regulating it

       Advantages and disadvantages of a large very wealthy class in a nation

       Directions in which philanthropic expenditure may be best turned

       CHAPTER XIV

      MARRIAGE

      Its importance and the motives that lead to it

       The moral and intellectual qualities it specially demands

       Duty to the unborn.—Improvident marriages

       The doctrine of heredity and its consequences

       Religious celibacy

       Marriages of dissimilar types often peculiarly happy

       Marriages resulting from a common weakness

       Independent spheres in marriage.—Effect on character

       The age of marriage

       Increased independence of women

       CHAPTER XV

      SUCCESS

      Success depends more on character than on intellect

       Especially that accessible to most men and most conducive to happiness

       Strength of will, tact and judgment.—Not always joined

       Their combination a great element of success

       Good nature

       Tact: its nature and its importance

       Its intellectual and moral affinities

       Value of good society in cultivating it.—Newman's description of a gentleman

       Disparities between merit and success

       Success not universally desired

       CHAPTER XVI

      TIME

      Rebellion of human nature against the essential conditions of life

       Time 'the stuff of life'

       Various ways of treating it

       Increased intensity of life

       Sleep

       Apparent inequalities of time

       The tenure of life not too short

       Old age

       The growing love of rest.—How time should be regarded

       CHAPTER XVII

      THE END

      Death terrible chiefly through its accessories

       Pagan and Christian ideas about it

       Premature death

       How easily the fear of death is overcome

       The true way of regarding it

THE MAP OF LIFE

       Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

       Table of Contents

      One of the first questions that must naturally occur to every writer who deals with the subject of this book is, what influence mere discussion and reasoning can have in promoting the happiness of men. The circumstances of our lives and the dispositions of our characters mainly determine the measure of happiness we enjoy, and mere argument СКАЧАТЬ