Download or read book The Science of Happiness (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Smith Williams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Science of Happiness Back of every conscious movement lies the load stone of a desire. Back of every instinctive motion of the Iowliest organism, every reflex twitch of a muscle of beast or of man, is a chain of organic impulses lead ing no less surely, though it be by the tortuous route of heredity, to a primeval desire. And in the last analysis all desires, whatever their seeming diversity of character, may be reduced to one: Stated broadly, there is no desire but the desire for happiness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.