ABSTRACT
There is a persistent tradition among older people that youth is the happiest period of life. This illusion is probably due to that fortunate distortion of our past which is deeply rooted in our constitutions and consists in remembering the glowing joyous moments more readily than those filled with pain or gloom. It is, however, unfortunate for the young people that we are so fond of parading this illusion before them. For it naturally tends to darken their outlook on life.
