Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Unhappiness
December, 1964
In my Heyday (which was the Twenties), most of my contemporaries took the Declaration of Independence seriously--especially that phrase in it which declares that the pursuit of happiness is an inalienable right. Among all too many of today's intellectuals this is no longer a respectable opinion. According to them every thinking man must be, and every decent man should be, thoroughly miserable--the decent man because the world is unjust, the thinking man because the whole universe is, and must re...
