FURNISHING THE MIND
SAFEST AND CHEAPEST PATH TO HAPPINESS. Culture is the safest and cheapest path to independent happiness, so any publishing venture that helps to spread culture is a blessing to mankind, writes Mr Desmond MacCarthy in hailing a new edition of cheap reprints of the classics. The citadel of a man’s mind is not impregnable, but it can hold out longer than other parts of him against misfortune. Therefore, to provision it is prudent. But often the owner is so occupied in satisfying primary needs or, if better off, by social and professional obligations, that he gives up cultivating his mind. Ho soon decides that he has not time enough for that and becomes content to live and die without knowing what superior men have made or thought of life. Dull to himself, the cause of dullness in others, his life, unless he is a religious man. lacks all perspective; it is only a foreground of sensations pleasant or unpleasant, worries and little hobbies.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1939, Page 6
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166FURNISHING THE MIND Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1939, Page 6
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