Did the quote appear in the 1903 essay Optimism An Essay?

Part I Optimism Within · Could we choose our environment, and were desire in human undertakings synonymous with endowment, all men would, I suppose, be optimists. Certainly most of us regard happiness as the proper end of all earthly enterprise. The will to be happy animates alike the philosopher, ...

↑ Address by the Hon. Carroll D. Wright before the Unitarian Conference, September, 1903. ... The test of all beliefs is their a practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

Simply titled Optimism (public library | free ebook), it was originally published in 1903 and written — a moment of pause here — after Keller learned to write on a grooved board over a sheet of paper, using the grooves and the end of her ...

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Optimism is the harmony between man’s spirit and the spirit of God pronouncing His works good. The End · [1] Life and Letters of John Richard Green. Edited by Leslie Stephen. [2] Address by the Hon. Carroll D. Wright before the Unitarian Conference, September, 1903.

This document's URL: https://www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/lib/detail.html?id=2382&page=1 · COULD we choose our environment, and were desire in human undertakings synonymous with endowment, all men would, I suppose, be optimists. Certainly most of us regard happiness as the proper end of all ...

In this remarkably Schopenhauerian essay, Arthur Haswell argues that a world where consciousness is fundamental may still be a world of suffering; even fundamental suffering: "Does a universe imbued with mind, or even purpose, necessarily translate ...

Some crass optimists attempt to justify procreation in the face of the risks by pointing to the option of suicide. Their argument is that if the person brought into existence finds the quality of his or her life to be unacceptably low there is a way of opting out of existence. These really are shallow words that belie the depth of suffering that precedes and precipitates suicide.

Helen Keller — ‘Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil...