The-Conquest-of-Happiness-by-Bertrand-Russell

Chapter 10: Is happiness
still possible?
So far we have been considering the unhappy man;
we now have the pleasanter task of considering the
happy man. From the conversation and the books of
some of my friends I have been almost led to
conclude that happiness in the modern world has
become an impossibility. I find, however, that this
view tends to be dissipated by introspection,
foreign travel, and the conversation of my
gardener. The unhappiness of my literary friends I
have considered in an earlier chapter; in the
present chapter I wish to make a survey of the
happy people that I have come across in the course
of my life.
Happiness is of two sorts, though, of course, there
are intermediate degrees. The two sorts I mean
might be distinguished as plain and fancy, or
animal and spiritual, or of the heart and of the