All Pleasures are Inseparably Connected.――The Error of Religions and Philosophies which Condemn Any.――Escape from Pain the Lowest Form of Pleasure.――Indifference to Pleasure a Sign of Mental Failing.――Contentment is not Happiness.――Happiness means Expansion and Growth.――Practical Difficulty in Comparing Pleasures.――The Hierarchy of Enjoyments.――The Blunders of Asceticism.――The Equality of Pleasures, as Such, pp. 21-25 IV. _The Distribution of Happiness._ Relation of Happiness to the Means of Happiness.――Law of the “Rate of Pleasure.”――The Extremes of the Social Order Equally Unfavorable.――Civilization does not Increase Personal Enjoyment.――Social Evils Diminish, but Personal Sufferings Increase.――The Motive of the True Civilization.――Women Have Less Happiness than Men.――Partly through their Physical Nature, Partly through Social Impositions.――Pernicious, Legal and Ecclesiastical Restrictions.――The True and False Education of Women.――Man will Profit by Woman’s Improvement.――Childhood and Youth not the Happiest Periods of Life.――Enjoyment Should Increase with Mental and Physical Vigor.――Old Age is not the Period of Wisdom.――Spurious Enjoyments of the Aged. pp. 26-35 V. _Principles of a Self-Education for the Promotion of One’s Own Happiness._ Happiness is the Reward of Effort.――The Greatest Efficiency is not the Greatest Happiness.――The Principles of a Self-Education:――I. The Multiplication of the Sources of Enjoyment――What these Sources Are――The Avoidance of Profitless Pain――The Value of Knowledge――The True End of Culture――Falsity of “Contentment with Little.”――The Kind of Knowledge Required:――1. Of Our Bodily Constitution――2. Of the Elements of the Sciences――3. Of the Nature of the Mind――4. Of the Principles of Business――5. Of the Value of Evidence.――II. The Maintenance of a Sensibility to Pleasure.――The Criteria of Pleasurable Sensations.――The Anatomy of Ennui.――III. The Search for Variety of Impressions.――Variety Necessary to High Pleasure.――Pleasure must be Remitted.――The Individual should Seek Novelty.――The Evil Effects of Habit.――IV. The Proper Proportion Between Desire and Pleasure.――The Wisdom of Counting the Cost.――Precepts for the Regulation of Desire.――V. Make all Pleasures a Part of Happiness.――All Pleasures are Excellent.――Error of the Contrary Doctrine.――All Pleasures should be Brought into Relation.――The Bond of Sense to what is Beyond Sense.――The Reality of the Ideal. STROWINGS pp. 36-56 PART II. How Far Our Happiness Depends on Nature and Fate. I. _Our Bodily and Mental Constitutions._