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Hilty was a spokesman for women's rights to vote and to be elected, several decades before the subject became mainstream. Hilty argued that
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Hilty's philosophical concern was practical in nature. He wrote about happiness, the meaning of life and work, developing good habits, time management, and winning the battles of life. He became famous from his writings about happiness, which first appeared in three volumes in 1891, 1895 and 1899.
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Hilty supported the
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intellectuals who still believed in the Gospel, while many other intellectuals dedicated themselves to the so-called "monastic" philosophy following the new sciences after Darwin. He believed in a new reformation beyond the dogmas of churches and politics, after the time of materialism.
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Prussian examination board of jurists, had written and published a political novel about the
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He famously said: "Peace is only a hair's breadth away from war." Although a
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