Theoretically this means that the family without a roof over its head, if it has not frozen to death in an icy winter’s night, will be just as happy, when it sees the first rays of the morning sun, as the rich man who has to get out of his warm bed; and in practice what it comes to is that every person bears the burden with which he has been loaded as patiently as a donkey, for a donkey that is only just a little bit stronger than the weight of its burden demands of it is happy.