THE PLEASURES OF LIFE

PART I

THE

PLEASURES OF LIFE

PART I

BY

THE RIGHT HON. LORD AVEBURY, P.C.

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D.C.L. (Oxon.), LL.D. (Cantab., Dubl. et Edin.), M.D. (Würzb.), V.P.L.S., F.R.S.,
F.G.S., F.Z.S., F.S.A., F.E.S., Trust. Brit. Mus.; Assoc. Acad. Roy. des Sci. Brux.;
Hon. Mem. R. Irish Acad., Amer. Ethnol. Soc., Anthrop. Socc. Wash. (U.S.),
Brux., Firenze., Anthrop. Verein Graz., Soc. Entom. de France, Soc.
Géol. de la Suisse, and Soc. Helvét. des Sci. Nat. ;

Mem. Amer. Phil. Soc. Philad., and Soc. d'Ethn. de Paris; Corresp. Mem. Soc.
Nat. des Sci. Nat. de Cherb., Berl. Gesell. für Anthrop., Soc. Romana
di Antrop., Soc. d'Emul. d'Abbeville, Soc. Cient. Argentina, Soc.
de Géog. de Lisb., Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., Numis. and Ant.
Soc. Philad.; Amer. Entom. Soc., For. Assoc. Mem.
Soc. d'Anthrop. de Paris; For. Mem. Amer. Antiq. Soc.;

For. Mem. Soc. Espanola de Hist. Nat.; For. Mem. Roy. Soc. of Sci. Upsala ;
Hon. Mem. New Zealand Inst.; German Ord. Pour le Mérite.

TWO HUNDRED AND THIRD THOUSAND

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1903

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First Edition printed by R. & R. CLARK, June 1887. Reprinted with alterations and additions, August, September, October, and December (twice) 1887, February 1888. With alterations, March, April, and May 1888. With alterations July and September 1888, November 1888, twice May 1889, July 1889. With alterations, July 1889. With alterations, November 1889. November 1889, January, April, August, and November 1890. January and November 1891. November 1892. February and December 1893, 1894. January and July 1896, 1897. January 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903.

PREFACE

THOSE who have the pleasure of attending the opening meetings of schools and colleges, and of giving away prizes and certificates, are generally expected at the same time to offer such words of counsel and encouragement as the experience of the world might enable them to give to those who are entering life.

Having been myself when young rather prone to suffer from low spirits, I have at several of these gatherings taken the opportunity of dwelling on the privileges and blessings we enjoy, and I reprint here the substance of some of these addresses