From the happiness of virtue to the virtue of happiness: 400 B.C.-A.D. 1780.

From: Daedalus | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: McMahon, Darrin M. | Copyright information

It is only right that Daedalus should devote an issue to happiness, seeing that its publisher was chartered with the "end and design" of cultivating "every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people."

Its publisher, of course, is the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1780 at a time when Americans--newly independent and free--were demanding that their institutions, like...

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