NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
Publishers

COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY
HORACE FLETCHER

CONTENTS.

Introduction,[7]
Hypothesis,[29]
Theory,[38]
Prefatory Definitions,[43]
The Value of Simile,[63]
Analysis of Fear,[69]
Baleful Effects of Fear,[78]
How to Eliminate Fear,[89]
How to Cure Special Forms of Fear,[100]
The Now-Field,[109]
Pertinent Pages,[117]
Stop Importing, or, Eradication versus Repression,[145]
The Impotence of Pain,[153]
Unhappy Unless Miserable,[160]
Thou Shalt Not Strike a Woman,[169]
The Point-of-View,[177]
Don't Be a Sewer,[187]
Call Suspicion a Liar,[190]
I Can't Not Do It,[192]
A Million to One on the Unexpected,[198]
Love Cannot be Qualified,[203]
Last Sometimes First,[211]
A Beginning and Not an End,[217]
Appendix A—Dr. Wm. H. Holcomb,[223]
Appendix B—George Kennan,[242]
Explanation of the A. B. C. Series,[253]

PREFACE
TO
SIXTH THOUSAND

"Happiness" was written in answer to many questions elicited by the publication of "Menticulture."

The "Introduction" is not material to the subject except to show the sources of the suggestions relative to profitable living contained in the two books.