This article is written by Bertrand Arthur William Russell and he was a British philosopher, mathematician and nobel laurette, whose emphasis on logical analysis influenced the course of 20th century thinking. Based on my reading i found that this article is quite hard to understand at first but yet it still keep my interest to keep on reading. According to the author Bertrand Arthur William Russell happiness can be divided into two sorts. The two sorts of happiness might be distinguished as plain and fancy, or animal and spiritual, or of the heart and of the head. Russell also included his time during childhood which is when he was a boy he knew a man that bursting his happiness with digging wells. In the year 1895 Russell could neither read or write and he got a vote for parliament, he learn that for the first time that such an institution existed . His happiness was not only depends on intellectual sources but also it was based on physical vigor which means a sufficiency of work and the overcoming of not insuperable obstacles in the shape of rock.
The author of this article also said that there was another sort of happiness which are for scientist and also artist.According to him the happiest person of the present day are the men of science because most of them are emotionally profound that they derive pleasure from eating and even marrying while artist and literary men consider it necessary to be unhappy in their life such as an in marriage. The art people find that it is hard to find happiness. They must make the public understand their works or else they will consider has produced the terrible art works. The circumstances shows that the artist are less happy than the scientist because they are having to choose between being despised and being despicable.
In the conclusion, this article is about the people is hard to find their happiness. The degree of happiness is all different for all human being which is it depends on them to describe the meaning of "happy".
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