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[Eisaman <blu...@el...>]

Of holiday goods. CLIMATE AND HAPPINESS The idea of the relation of
climate to happiness is modern. It is probably born of the telegraph and
of the possibility of rapid travel, and it is more disturbing to
serenity of mind than any other. Providence had so ordered it that if we
sat still in almost any region of the globe except the tropics we would
have, in course of the year, almost all the kinds of climate that exist.
The ancient societies did not trouble themselves about the matter; they
froze or thawed, were hot or cold, as it pleased the gods. They did not
think of fleeing from winter any more than from the summer solstice, and
consequently they enjoyed a certain contentment of mind that is absent
from modern life. We are more intelligent, and therefore more
discontented and unhappy. We are always trying to escape winter when we
are not trying to escape summer. We are half the time 'in transitu',
flying hither and thither, craving that exact adaptation of the weather
to our whimsical bodies promised only to the saints