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NEW ENGLANDER.

No. CXLVIII.

JANUARY, 1879.

ARTICLE LA BETTER REMEDY THAN COMMUNISM

FOR THE UNHAPPINESS OF THE TIMES.

side.

We live in an unhappy age. This is apparent on every Literature is full of unhappiness. Our most thoughtful novelists are gloomy. Our representative poets sing in a minor strain. Our deepest philosophers confess the mystery of life, the insoluble character of its problems. Art, too, is melancholy. What pictures rivet the modern gaze like those full of sadness and pathos! What strains rivet the modern ear like those full of mystery and unrest-the dreamy languor of Chopin, the subtle passion of Bach, the deep sadness of Beethoven! Life is unhappy. The capitalist is insecure in his possessions, the laborer is discontented with his condition, professional life abounds in disappointments and heart burnings, homes in discontents and estrangements. Not that there is not in the present age much happiness in literature, in art, in life. But the spirit of the time is one of sadness. We are continually advancing in culture and material improvements. But is there any advance commensurate in the art of happy living? No! if anything, there is probably a decline in this respect. No century, perhaps, is more characterized by unhap

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