How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.
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contribution to the commonweal. Here the chances of individuality are as manifold as the facts of life itself. But work we must—or die. We have already emphasized the fact that the affirmation of the necessity and value of work is part of the good life-—it remains only for the individual to choose such work as he is fitted for, preferably work that represents a compensation for his personal feeling of inferiority in terms of social service. The happiest man is he whose personal satisfaction in his work is most useful to his community. The Social and Sexual Tasks The second group of problems arises out of the specific human need for communal life. As individuals we are too weak to live alone, and nature has given us the human community as the best weapon against extinction. No other solution is possible for man. The problem of social adjustment, like the problem of occupation, is not a problem for the individual to solve according to his private logic. The manner of his social adjustment admits of a tremendous variety of solutions, but the adjustment itself is fundamental to the good life and to human happiness. So far as any archaeological researches can trace, human beings have always lived in com¬ munities, and the history of mankind is the history of the diversification and complexity of social relations. As in the case of work, the individual who does not cooperate in the social life is isolated either by nature or by man, and excluded from the opportunities of living a full and effective life. The third great problem is the problem of sex. The sexual problem arises out of the fact that there are just two sexes, and that a social and sexual adjustment between the two sexes is desirable and necessary as part of nature's scheme of maintaining the human race. The higher the degree of biological evolution, the more distinct the sexes, and the more complicated the division of labour between them. It is part of the grand strategy of nature to