THE ART OF LIVING. 66 Happy is life when sound health, pure feelings, image of the Deity, and his home becomes a Paradise." BY DR. HENRY DUHRING. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. NEW YORK: WILEY AND PUTNAM. 1843. INTRODUCTION. OF all the various branches of useful knowledge which it can be the object of our endeavours to possess and to promote, none appears to me of greater importance to every human being, than that knowledge which teaches us, in what manner, and by what means, we may hope to render our existence as pleasant or happy as it possibly can be. However, as to teach in a few short essays, like the following, so extensive a knowledge as the art of living, physically, mentally, and morally considered, could not be my object, even if I felt myself capable of undertaking so great a task, I have preferred, to single out for illustration, a few of its most important general principles, on the |