Money is not the chief factor in happiness. It is dependent on certain conditions. These are but a few. But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser.
Happiness concludes with a pretty tribute to what the professor calls the American cow.
The cow, he points out, does not have to brush her teeth, bob her hair, select garments, light her fire and cook her food. He paints a picture of so sweet, so placid, so carefree an existence, that you could curse your parents for not being Holsteins. The more interesting it is, the happier it is. And the happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts. These are the views, this is the dogma, of Professor William Lyon Phelps, the pride of New Haven.