Transcriber's Note: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. For more transcriber's notes, please go to the end of this text. HAPPINESS HORACE FLETCHER'S WORKS THE A. B.-Z. OF OUR OWN NUTRITION. Thirteenth thousand. 462 pp. THE NEW MENTICULTURE; OR, THE A-B-C OF TRUE LIVING. Forty-Eighth thousand. 310 pp. THE NEW GLUTTON OR EPICURE; OR, ECONOMIC NUTRITION. Fifteenth thousand. 344 pp. HAPPINESS AS FOUND IN FORETHOUGHT MINUS FEARTHOUGHT. Fourteenth thousand. 251 pp. THAT LAST WAIF; OR, SOCIAL QUARANTINE. Sixth thousand. 270 pp. HAPPINESS AS FOUND IN Forethought minus Fearthought BY HORACE FLETCHER _Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science_ FOURTEENTH THOUSAND NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY HORACE FLETCHER CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION, 7 HYPOTHESIS, 29 THEORY, 38 PREFATORY DEFINITIONS, 43 THE VALUE OF SIMILE, 63 ANALYSIS OF FEAR, 69 BALEFUL EFFECTS OF FEAR, 78 HOW TO ELIMINATE FEAR, 89 HOW TO CURE SPECIAL FORMS OF FEAR, 100 THE NOW-FIELD, 109 PERTINENT PAGES, 117 STOP IMPORTING, OR, ERADICATION VERSUS REPRESSION, 145 THE IMPOTENCE OF PAIN, 153 UNHAPPY UNLESS MISERABLE, 160 THOU SHALT NOT STRIKE A WOMAN, 169 THE POINT-OF-VIEW, 177 DON'T BE A SEWER, 187 CALL SUSPICION A LIAR, 190 I CAN'T _Not_ DO IT, 192 A MILLION TO ONE ON THE UNEXPECTED, 198 LOVE CANNOT BE QUALIFIED, 203 LAST SOMETIMES FIRST, 211 A BEGINNING AND NOT AN END, 217 APPENDIX A--DR. WM. H. HOLCOMB, 223 APPENDIX B--GEORGE KENNAN, 242 EXPLANATION OF THE A. B. C. SERIES, 253 PREFACE TO SIXTH THOUSAND "Happiness" was written in answer to many questions elicited by the publication of "Menticulture." The "Introduction" is not material to the subject except to show the sources of the suggestions relative to profitable living contained in the two books.