The Happiness of Nations by James Mackaye. Upton Sinclair, ed. 1915. The Cry for Justice

Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915.

The Happiness of Nations

By James Mackaye

(American writer upon economics, born 1872)


EVERYWHERE we are taught that “life is sacred,” that “liberty is sacred,” that “property is sacred,”—but where are we taught that happiness is sacred? And yet it is only because of their relation to happiness that these other things have a trace of sacredness.	1