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Excerpt from Happiness Doctrine to declare that men possess the right to happiness. For one thing, men are not so sure about inalienable rights as they have sometimes been. There is a famous sentence in the Declaration of Independence of The United States of America, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The eight eenth century was inclined to make a gospel of what it called the rights Of man, and assumed that nature endowed men with certain abstract rights. Itfills: ight to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.