Mr. Leonard Woo1f
Have we a. Right to Happiness, and are we becoming Happier ?
THE early democrats said that everybody had an equal right to happiness, and that to promote this right was the tirst duty of a Government. However reasonable this may seem, it was a new idea when it was promulgated, and is clearly beset with pitfalls now. Mr. Leonard Woolf this evening will compare, firstly, Government provision for happiness, and secondly, actual enjoyment of happiness in various classes of the population in 1900 and in 1931. From the point of view of obtaining happiness, the question of occupying leisure time arises. Next week Mr. Woolf will discuss whether everyone really ought to bo treated as equal.