Love, Life & Work
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Happiness, for Elbert Hubbard, begins with how a person uses the energy of everyday life. These 1906 essays consider work, friendship, initiative, mental attitude and religion. The first piece takes the form of a prayer for courage, honesty and goodwill, coupled with a wish to help others through example and opportunities to help themselves.
Hubbard's argument becomes sharper when he turns to authority and belief. He separates moral conduct from religious dogma, challenges attempts to impose one pattern of living on everyone, and treats beauty as a human need. He argues that useful work offers a satisfaction that formal worship often supplies without effort. His direct statements and pointed examples give readers interested in practical philosophy a set of opinions to weigh against their own habits, convictions and working lives.
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- Elbert Hubbard
- Pages
- 69
- Language
- English
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- Philosophy
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