The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest / The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice; selected from twenty-five languages; covering a period of five thousand years

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The Happiness of Nations

By James Mackaye

(American writer upon economics, born 1872)

Everywhere we are taught that “life is sacred,” that “liberty is sacred,” that “property is sacred,”—but where are we taught that happiness is sacred? And yet it is only because of their relation to happiness that these other things have a trace of sacredness.