Article November 10, 1945 Issue

Signs of the Times

True Happiness

with contributions from James Reid, Dawes Eliot

Colonist
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Through all ages men have searched for happiness, that state which would fulfill every wish of the human heart. Many have sought it in power: the power of riches, the power of place, the power of knowledge.

Three plays by Marlowe and a good many more than three by Shakespeare have delineated what comes of the search for happiness through power. It is illusory. Speaking of times past, some of the richest individuals in physical wealth have been the most bitterly unhappy. They found that they stood alone, that they had lost all of their friends. The search for place has moved many men in their lives, but it has not satisfied them. Pursuit of knowledge has been the most deceptive of all, as savants long have written or have said.

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