en whom you can call happy； you will see that they all have certain things in mon。 The most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see ing into existence。 Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family。 Artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them。 But there are many humbler forms of the same kind of pleasure。 Many men who spend their working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and unremunerated toil in their gardens； and when the spring es； they experience all the joys of having created beauty。 。。
幸福之路（3）
The whole subject of happiness has； in my opinion； been treated too solemnly。 It had been thought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life or a religion。 Perhaps those who have been rendered unhappy by a bad theory may need a better theory to help them to recovery； just as you may need a tonic when you have been ill。 But when things are normal a man should be healthy without a tonic and happy without a theory。 It is the simple things that really matter。 If a man delights in his wife and children； has success in work； and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night； spring and autumn； he will be happy whatever his philosophy may be。 If； on the other hand； he finds his wife fateful； his children’s noise unendurable； and the office a night