Boethius wrote "The Consolation of Philosophy" when he was in prison, awaiting execution for treason in 523 A. D. Like Sir Thomas More later, he also held high office & was convicted on false testimony. The book is an imaginary conversation with Lady Philosophy, who counsels him that happiness is still attainable amidst fickle fortune & that it comes from within.The same general idea was also taught to Pollyanna by her father & she propagated it in the town where she lived among a wide cross-section of people as the "glad game". Her father, a clergyman, when in the doldrums, found about 800 verses in the Bible, which exhort the people to be "glad & rejoice." The people helped by her in this way to realise that "happiness comes from within" as told by Lady Philosophy to Boethius, rally behind her, when she has to face the prospect of life-long paralysis, due to an accident. However due to a new treatment, the catastrophe is avoided.
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