The toil of man’s daily life alas! is indeed as the straining and jolting of a lumbering wagon,—it grovels, it wallows, it drags wearily, and the soul of the wagoner soars not. But there are few thinkers who confront the great social question of the hour as not the rescue of the submerged tenth merely, not the elevation of the masses only, but the uplifting of _all Humanity_ to higher levels in the scale of being. When the great process of social reform is animated and ruled by that lofty aspiration, the lumbering wagon of toil will become a triumphal chariot of moral and spiritual progress. JANE HUME CLAPPERTON. Contents CHAP. PAGE Initial Chapter—HAPPINESS 1 Part I—ECONOMICS IN MODERN LIFE I THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 23 II ORGANIZED INDUSTRY 51 Part II—THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE SUBJECT I THE LAW OF POPULATION 79 II THE PROBLEM OF SEX 97 III EUGENICS OR STIRPICULTURE 114 IV MARRIAGE 131 V PARENTAGE 149 Part III—ABNORMAL HUMANITY THE ELIMINATION OF CRIME 163 Part IV—EVOLUTION OF THE EMOTIONS I THE SENTIMENTS OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 185 II RAPACITY, PRIDE, LOVE OF PROPERTY 202 III PERSONAL JEALOUSY, NATIONAL PATRIOTISM 218 Part V—EDUCATION, OR DIRECT TRAINING OF CHILDHOOD TO THE CIVILIZED HABIT OF MIND 237 Part VI—CONDITIONS IN AID OF HAPPY LIFE IN A DEVELOPING CIVILIZATION I THE NEEDS OF ADOLESCENCE 257 II DOMESTIC REFORM 268 Part VII—RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS LIFE PRIMAL ELEMENTS IN HUMANITY’S EVOLUTION 287 SUMMARY 319 SYNOPSIS 325 INITIAL CHAPTER HAPPINESS The ultimate value of all effort is the production of happiness, and objects excite our interest in so far as we believe them to be conducive to that great and ultimate consummation of existence—Happiness.—J. C. CHATTERJI.