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The Right to "Happiness"
February 8, 1912 issue

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This article presents information related to happiness of human beings. Many marriages are unhappy; many individuals think that by disregarding bonds of marriage they can find that happiness to which they feel they are by nature entitled. There is nothing strange or surprising in this; the surprising thing is that anybody except the party thus directly concerned should feel that this view of the matter is "superior" or "enlightened." In point of fact, it is very like superior views of those who keep discovering that the earth is flat, or inventing contrivances for perpetual motion. An individual has no "right to happiness" other than such right as is consistent with the happiness and well-being of all mankind.

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HAPPINESS; HUMAN beings; EMOTIONS; SATISFACTION; MARRIAGE; PSYCHOLOGY
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