happy by hope . And as we do not as yet possess a present, but look for a future salvation , so is it with our happiness , and this with patience; for we are encompassed with evils , which we ought patiently to endure, until we come to the ineffable enjoyment of unmixed good ; for there shall be no longer anything to endure. Salvation , such as it shall be in the world to come, shall itself be our final happiness . And this happiness these philosophers refuse to believe in, because they do not see it, and attempt to fabricate for themselves a happiness in this life, based upon a virtue which is as deceitful as it is proud . We give a much more unlimited approval to their idea that the life of the wise man must be social. For how could the city of God (concerning which we are already writing no less than the nineteenth book of this work) either take a beginning or be developed, or attain its proper destiny, if the life of the saints were not a social life? But who can enumerate all the great grievances with which human society abounds in the misery of this mortal state? Who can weigh them? Hear how one of their comic writers makes one of his characters express the common feelings of all men in this matter : I am married ; this is one misery. Children are born to me; they are