SCIENTIFIC MELIORISM

AND THE

EVOLUTION OF HAPPINESS

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.
highest truth he sees he will fearlessly utter; knowing that, let what may come of it, he
is thus playing his right part in the world; knowing that, if he can effect the change
he aims at-well; if not-well also: though not so well."-Herbert SpenCER

"The good want power, but to weep barren tears.

The powerful goodness want, worse need for them.
The wise want love and those who love want wisdom;

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
As if none felt: they know not what to do."
SHELLEY'S Prometheus Unbound

LONDON

KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE

1885

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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 minds made better by their presence: live

In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn

For miserable aims that end in self,

In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,
And with their mild persistence urge man's search
To vaster issues."

And E Enscribe it to

GEORGE ARTHUR GASKELL,

THE LIVING FRIEND

BY WHOSE AID MY AIMS HAVE SHAPED THEMSELVES TO

SCIENTIFIC MELIORISM.