Worry: The Disease of the Age (Classic Reprint)

Man looks before and after, and tends to do so more every day The futility of worry ;its relations to disease, work, and the religious life I ts cure must be psychical. OUR beings end and aim is happiness not necessarily the material happiness of the inebriate or the epicure, but happiness of some kind, having its highest form in the spiritual exaltation of those rare souls who, in this world of shadows and half-lights, have seen a vision and follow the gleam. Thus to worry is to miss the purpose of ones being :it is to fail to fail for self, to fail for others, and it is to fail gratuitously. It is worse than a crime it is a blunder ;but the blunder is almost universal, and is the characteristic symptom of an age which the laudator temporis acti notwithstanding I believe to be the greatest in human history hitherto. To the evolutionist no other belief is open. What a piece of work is a man !H ow noble in reason! ...
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