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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: only by weaker minds. The wise man is satisfied with the more
modest but much more definite term CONTENTMENT. What education
should chiefly aim at is to save us from a discontented life.
Health is one favoring condition, but by no means an
indispensable one, of contentment. Woman's heart and love are a
shrewd device of Nature, a trap which she sets for the average
man, to force him into working. But the wise man will always
prefer work chosen by himself."
Please observe, however, that I am not yet pretending finally to
JUDGE any of these attitudes. I am only describing their
variety. The securest way to the rapturous sorts of happiness of
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