INDEX

acquiescence, the attitude of, 128

admiration, 86, 106

adolescence often a time of great unhappiness, 129

affection, 175, 177–85, 243,

alcohol, 16, 71, 100

altruism, 118–20, 123

America, 49, 51, 130

Angelo, Michael, 216

animals and boredom, 57, 94

anxieties, 77

applause, desire for, 122

aristocracy, one of the advantages of, 137

ascetic element in morality, 100

autobiography, the author’s 18–19

Bacon, Roger, 35–6

belief in a cause, 152–3

birth-rate, decline of the, 193–4

Blake, William, 128

boredom, 18, 57–68, 209,

Brontë, Emily and Charlotte, 128

Browning, Robert, 37–8

business man, the, 46–50

Byron, 28

Caution in love, 185

child and envy, the, 83, 87

child and inventiveness, the, 64

China and Japan, 148–9

cities, 190

competition, 91

competitive success and happiness, 50, 52, 55

congenial companionship, 132, 138, 152

conscience, 96–7

conscious upon the unconscious, operation of the, 76, 102, 220–1

constructiveness, 212–14, 217

conventional people, 131

courage, 79, 244–5

craftsman’s joy, the, 150–1

creeds, 241

cure for envy, 86–9

Democracy, 84, 91, 191

diversity of morals and beliefs, 126

drink, 16, 25, 169, 228

drugs, 61–2, 228

Earth, contact with, 66–8, 81

Ecclesiastes, 28–31, 33

effort, 230–4

ego, unimportance of one’s, 74, 123, 222

emotional fatigue, 74–5

enjoyment, 16, 51

environment, 133

envy, 80–95

envy, fatigue as a cause of, 92

excitement, 58, 60, 62, 65, 79–81, 110

external interests, 220, 222

Family, the, 186–207

fanaticism, 222–3

fatigue, 69–81, 92, 220

fear, 77–9, 242, 244

fear of public opinion, 126–39

flat, life in a, 190–1

freedom of the Press, 139

Golden mean, the, 230

gormandizer, the, 158, 165–8

grief, 227–8

Happiness an achievement, 231

happiness and competitive success, 50

happiness, sources of, 143–4, 148–9, 152–7, 166, 174, 197, 208, 210, 217–18, 226, 228–9, 231, 234, 240–5

happiness, the best touchstone for, 110

happiness the only cure for envy, 86–7

hatred, the habit of, 213–14

hatred stirred by propaganda, 94

hedonism, 246

herd, fear of the, 97–8, 126, 131–3

hobbies, 153–4

hope must be impersonal, 236

housewife, the, 188–9, 210

Ibsen, 41–2

idealistic theories, 84, 92, 119

ill-treatment, hallucinations of, 111–13

impersonal interests, 219, 227

individual, problem of the, 17

infantile moral teaching, 99, 101, 104–5

infantile suggestions, 103

insanity, 111, 124

instinctive happiness, rareness of, 93

intelligentsia, young, 148

interest in oneself, 19

interest in persons, 154–5

interest in things, 156

introvert, malady of the, 160, 180

Justice and envy, 92

Krutch, J. W., 28, 32–8, 41–4, 241

Leisure, employment of, 52–3, 55–6

Lenin, 215

Liaisons Dangereuses, 22

love, 36–41, 67, 247

lunacy, 23–4, 111

Malicious gossip, 113–14

marriage, 80–1, 232

Massenmench, Ernst Toller’s, 43

masters and slaves, 191

maternal element in love, the, 21

maxims to prevent persecution mania, 118–25

megalomania, 23–5

mental discipline, 72, 75, 89

minor interests, 219, 229

moderation, 165, 167

Modern Temper, The, Krutch’s, 28, 32–34

modesty, 89–90

monk, the, 19–20

monotony, 64–5

moralist, the traditional, 246–7

motherhood, 204–7

Napoleon, 24

Narcissism, 20–3, 25

nervous breakdown, 75

nervous fatigue, 69–70, 73, 81, 220

Objective interests, 243, 245

oblivion, 169

Œdipus complex, the, 101, 192

opinions of others, the, 136

overwork, 74

Parental affection, 198–9

parental feeling, 41

parenthood, 200–4

parents and children, 192–3

passions and reason, the, 108–10, 166–7

peacocks, 90–1

persecution mania, 111–25

pessimism, 32–4

philosophy of competition, 54–5

physical fatigue, 69

pleasure of work, the, 149–52, 211–12, 216

pleasure, pursuit of, 16, 25, 80–1

pleasures of achievement, 145

pleasures of great men, the, 64

power, love of, 23–4, 119, 203, 233–4

preventatives of persecution mania, 118

propaganda and hatred, 93–4

proportion, sense of, 116, 221–3

Protestantism and sin, 96

Protestants and Catholics, 126–7

psycho-analytic repression, 24

public opinion, tyranny of, 130, 136, 138–9

Puritanism, 54–5

Rationality, 108–9

reading, 52–3, 63

reason, hatred of, 109–10

religion, 225, 241

Religious Orders, 35

religious psychology of sin, 96

resignation, 230–40

Retreat from Parenthood, Jean Aylin’s, 189

Roland, Madame, 84

Russian, the young, 148

Sages of antiquity, the, 36

scientists, happiness of, 145–7

secret of happiness, 157

security, sense of, 176–7

self-absorption, 20, 107, 243, 245

self-centred passions, 242–3

self-confidence, 177

self-deception, 124–5

self-denial, 245–7

self-regarding motives, 120

sense of sin, 20–1, 35, 96, 98, 102, 106, 244

sex and sin, 101–2

sex attraction, 67, 184

sex education, 102

sex majority, 232–3

sexual source of envy, 93

Shakespeare, 41–3, 67, 215

sin, consciousness of, 20–1, 35, 96, 98, 102, 106, 109, 243

skill, 211, 224

social freedom, 137

social inequalities, 91

social justice, 92

social persecution, 139

social system, the, 17

socialism, equalitarian doctrines of, 91

Solomon, 31–3, 88

Spinoza, 226

spinster, the, 187

sterility and civilization, 194

Stoics, the, 40

struggle for life, the, 45–6

superstitions of childhood, 105

Test of genius, 122

toleration, 139

tragedy, 41–4

tyranny of public opinion, 130

Unhappiness, Causes of, 17–18, 24–5, 27, 111, 127, 155, 185, 208, 220, 231, 235, 242, 244, 247

unhappiness, kinds of, 15–16, 27

unloved, feeling of being, 175–6

unrecognized merit, 121

Vanity, 23, 119

Victorians and love, the, 36–9

Women and external interests, 222

women and zest, 172–4

Wordsworth, 65

work, 208–18, 223

worry, 72–3, 75–8, 237–8

Youth and the tyranny of ignorance, 133–5

Zest, 158–9, 161, 163–5, 169–75, 209, 228

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