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Show j& j& gr T5e Duty of Happiness By Helen Keller Uali.ii Keller I. the airt Wh W. Horn Uf, Dumb nnd Mind. S IID test of all beliefs Is their practical effect In life. If It be 4 true that optimism compels the world forward and pessimism retards It, then It is dungcrous to propagate n pessimistic philosophy. Ono who believes that the pain In llfu outweighs tho Joy, and expresses that unhappy condition, only adds to the pain Schopenhauer is au -enemy to the race. Kveu If ho earnestly believed that this is tho most wretched of nil possible pos-sible worlds, bu should not promulgate n doctrine which robs men of the Incentive to fight with circumstance. If life gave him ashes for bread it was his fault. Life is u fair Held and tho right will prosper It wo stnnd by our guns. ' Let pessimism once tnku hold of the mind and life Is nil topsy-turvy all vanity nnd vexation of spirit. Thoro Is no cure for Individual or social disorder except In forgetfuliicbb and annihilation. ' "Let us eat, drink mid bo merry," says tho pessimist, "for to-morrow wo ye." If I regarded my llfo from tho point of view of tho pessimist I should bo undone. I should seek In vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does pot ring in my ears. I should beg night nnd day and never be sntistled I should sit apart In awful solitude, a prey to fear and dlspulr. But since I consider It a duty to myself and to others to be happy I escano a misery worse than nny physical deprivation. ' Tho optimist cannot fall back, cannot falter, for ho knows his neighbor will bo hlndCrcd by his failure to keep lu line. Ho will therefore hold his place fearlessly and remember the duty of slUnce. Sufficient unto each heart is its own sorrow. He will tak.t the Iron claws of circumstance In his hand nnd uso them ns him alone depended the establishment of heaven on earth.'-Kioni "Optimism " tools to break away the obstacles that block his path. He will work us Jf upon |