Chapter II: Part II

How Far Our Happiness Depends on Nature and Fate.

I. _Our Bodily and Mental Constitutions._

Life as a Synonym of Happiness.――Necessity and Chance the Arbiters
of Life.――The Endowment of the Child.――The Laws of
Heredity.――Hereditary and Congenital Traits.――The Heritage of the
Race.――Family Jewels and Family Curses.――The Avenue of
Escape.――Precepts for Self-training.――Words for Women.――Beauty and
its Cult.――Its Perils and its Power.――The Ideal of the
Beautiful.――The Four Temperaments.――Cheerfulness and its Physical
Seat.――Diseases that are Cheerful and those that are Not.――What to
do in an Attack of the Blues.――Old Age and its Attainment.――The
Fallacious Bliss of Youth.――Men who Outlive Themselves.

STROWINGS, pp. 57-80

II. _Our Physical Surroundings._

Clothing and its Objects.――The Dress of Women.――The Value of Good
Clothes.――The Room and its Furniture.――Our Living Rooms.――Own Your
Own House.――Foes to Fight in House-building.――A New Principle for
Architects.――Love of Home and Homesickness.――How Climate
Influences Cheerfulness.

STROWINGS, pp. 81-91

III. _Luck and its Laws._

What Solon said about Happiness.――Destiny in Human Affairs.――The
Calculation of Chances.――Results of the Laws of Luck.――They Cannot
be Escaped.――Runs of Luck and their Results.――“A Fool for Luck,”
and Why.――The Story of Polycrates and its Moral.――The Fetichism of
Gamblers.――Luck Does Less Than Many Think.――The Miracles of
Insurance.――The Dark Hand of Destiny.――Trifles Rule the World.――We
Are the Slaves of Chance.――But What is Chance?

STROWINGS, pp. 92-108