Its importance and the motives that lead to it 300 The moral and intellectual qualities it specially demands 302 Duty to the unborn.--Improvident marriages 305 The doctrine of heredity and its consequences 306 Religious celibacy 308 Marriages of dissimilar types often peculiarly happy 309 Marriages resulting from a common weakness 310 Independent spheres in marriage.--Effect on character 311 The age of marriage 312 Increased independence of women 314 CHAPTER XV SUCCESS Success depends more on character than on intellect 316 Especially that accessible to most men and most conducive to happiness 317 Strength of will, tact and judgment.--Not always joined 317 Their combination a great element of success 318 Good nature 319 Tact: its nature and its importance 320 Its intellectual and moral affinities 323 Value of good society in cultivating it.--Newman's description of a gentleman 324 Disparities between merit and success 326 Success not universally desired 326 CHAPTER XVI TIME Rebellion of human nature against the essential conditions of life 328 Time 'the stuff of life' 330 Various ways of treating it 330 Increased intensity of life 331 Sleep 332 Apparent inequalities of time 335 The tenure of life not too short 337 Old age 341 The growing love of rest.--How time should be regarded 341 CHAPTER XVII THE END Death terrible chiefly through its accessories 343 Pagan and Christian ideas about it 344 Premature death 349 How easily the fear of death is overcome 351 The true way of regarding it 352 THE MAP OF LIFE CHAPTER I