![]() If we cannot abolish all suffering, yet a great deal of it we can, and can mitigate more the experience of several thousand years has convinced us of this. The effect of this recognition is in no way disheartening on the contrary, it points out the direction for our efforts. We shall never completely subdue nature our body, too, is an organism, itself a part of nature, and will always contain the seeds of dissolution, with its limited power of adaptation and achievement. In regard to the first two, our judgment cannot hesitate: it forces us to recognize these sources of suffering and to submit to the inevitable. ![]() We gave the answer before, when we cited the three sources of human sufferings, namely, the superior force of nature, the disposition to decay of our bodies, and the inadequacy of our methods of regulating human relations in the family, the community, and the state. ![]() Nor does the prospect of discovering anything new seem much greater if we go on with the problem of why it is so hard for mankind to be happy. OUR discussion of happiness has so far not taught us much that is not already common knowledge. ![]()
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