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In his little book entitled "Happiness" (Dutton, $1.00). William Lyon Phelps begins with the definition of the happiest person as "he who thinks the most interesting thoughts." Following up this rather Aristolelian idea to its logical conclusions, with a human and good common sense which take from the subject much of its inherent moralizing. Professor Phelps discusses in turn education, old age, health wealth and bovine contentment and their relation to the universally desired happiness, with a result that the 50 pages of the little book contain almost as many interesting and withal surprisingly novel ideas.
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