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

slavery of wind and weather and the solitude of
dark winter evenings into the reliable and human
atmosphere of the factory and the cinema.
Companionship and cooperation are essential
elements in the happiness of the average man, and
these are to be obtained in industry far more fully
than in agriculture.
Belief in a cause is a source of happiness to large
numbers of people. I am not thinking only of
revolutionaries, socialists, nationalists in
oppressed countries, and such; I am thinking also
of many humbler kinds of belief. The men I have
known who believed that the English were the lost
ten tribes were almost invariably happy, while as
for those who believed that the English were only
the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, their bliss
knew no bounds. I am not suggesting that the reader
should adopt this creed, since I cannot advocate
any happiness based upon what seem to me to be
false beliefs. For the same reason I cannot urge the
reader to believe that men should live exclusively
upon nuts, although, so far as my observation goes,