How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.
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- Publication/creation
- London : George Routledge, 1932.
- Physical description
- xiv, 374 pages ; 22 cm
- Contributors
- Wolfe, W. Béran 1900-1935.
- Notes
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This edition was reprinted in 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1946 and 1948.
Copy 1 Note: 1937 reprint. X158203
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their antisocial meaning. Prostitution, homosexuality,
sexual asceticism, and sexual perversion are distinctly
antisocial solutions of the sex problem. They represent
private logic at war with common sense. A man may be a
homosexual and retain his place in society, whereas he
would be put in a lunatic asylum if he attempted to sell
furnaces in the tropics. If a man goes to a prostitute, his
conduct is condoned, but if he sells stock that he doesn’t
own—(an application of the same private logic)—he is
sent to prison. The sexual problem is at one and the same
time the least understood, the most misrepresented, and
the most difficult of all the three problems to solve.
The Battle-front of Life
We sketched the normal attack of an adult when we
described the normal character pattern. In adult life this
normal attack on the battle-front of life implies a full
adjustment to the world in which we live. The institution
of a few intimate and meaningful friendships in con¬
junction with a more extensive acquaintanceship ; the
affirmation of the bonds of art, science, nature, sports,
politics, philosophy, letters, and history ; an attitude of
optimistic altruism toward one’s fellow-men, and a very
active cooperation in the business of making the world a
better place to live in, are implicit in the ideal conquest of
the social sector.
On the occupational front, the adult man finds himself
contributing some useful service to his fellows. Usually
such services are adequately paid for, although money
itself is not the measure of a man’s service. Money is so
frequently a neurotic end in itself, that we can no longer
reckon the mere possession of the world’s goods as the
sign of an adequate contribution on the occupational
front, just as poverty is not in itself the sign of resistance
to the necessity of working. The active participation in
some hobby or avocation is a necessary concomitant of
success on this sector, and no man who has only his
business or profession, and nothing beside, can be