Chapter 7
Happiness through Photography
SEVERAL YEARS AGO I HAD STARTED READING THE GREAT BOOKS of the Western World, a series compiled many years ago by Encyclopedia Britannica. It includes writings by the most revered philosophers, historians, scientists, playwrights, poets, and novelists over a period of several thousand years. I had always wanted to own and read this fabulous storehouse of historical Western wisdom, but once I got the set and began reading it, I was stunned and disappointed to see that much of the thinking within it has led us to the worldwide mess we’ve worked ourselves into over the centuries. For example, John Locke wrote ...
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