{"collection":"ETC Sacred Texts","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_etc_vre_vre06_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_etc_vre_vre06_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_etc_vre_vre06_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/etc/vre/vre06.htm","summary":"If we were to ask the question: \"What is human life's chief concern?\" one of the answers we should receive would be: \"It is happiness.\" How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. The hedonistic school in ethics deduces the moral life wholly from the experiences of happiness and unhappiness which different kinds of conduct bring; and, even more in the religious life than in the\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Varieties of Religous Experience: Lectures IV and V. The Religion of Healthy Mindedness","tradition":"ETC Sacred Texts","translated_text":null,"word_count":17288}