SCIENTIFIC MELIORISM AND THE EVOLUTION OF HAPPINESS BY JANE HUME CLAPPERTON The "Not as adventitious will the wise man regard the faith which is in him. "The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want, worse need for them. And all best things are thus confused to ill. Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live among their suffering fellow-men LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1885 gt-wenley Seb 2-28-39 E Bedicate this Book TO THE MEMORY OF MY EARLY TEACHERS, GEORGE ELIOT AND JAMES CRANBROOK, WHO HAVE JOINED "The choir invisible Of those immortal dead that live again In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end in self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And E Enscribe it to GEORGE ARTHUR GASKELL, THE LIVING FRIEND BY WHOSE AID MY AIMS HAVE SHAPED THEMSELVES TO SCIENTIFIC MELIORISM. |