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Vf the Plcafures belonging to the Man and the Animal. — Thefe Plea- 

 fiires not eafily di/lingui/hed in Man, as he is an Animal as nvell as 

 aMnn. — Of the Pleafures of the Animal. — The Brnte has Pleafures 

 of the Mind as ivell as Pleafures of the Body. — Pleafures of the 

 Man threefold. — The Pleafures of Truth atid Science, of the Fine 

 Ans, and of Yinue. — What diflinguijloes all thefe Pleafures yrozw 

 the Pleafures of Senfe. — The Ohje£l of the Intelled being Know- 

 ledge, the Pleafure of all the three miifl be Knowledge. — Know- 

 ledge /»/^^j, becaiife it is Beautiful. — What Beauty is. — It belongs 

 to the Category of Relation ; — is that Relation of things ivhich 

 forms a Whole, or a Syftem. — Beauty ofihis kind in Propofitions, 

 and even in Ideas. — Different degrees of Beauty, as the Syjlem is 

 greater or lefs. — Of the reality and utility of Logic, by ivhich nve 

 arrange thefyflems of Things.— Of the Idea of Good, andofVk- 

 ful. 



HAVING, in the preceding chapter, diftingulfhed the defires 

 and purfuits of the Man from thofe of the Brute, I will, in 

 this chapter, diftinguifti likewife the Pleafures of the Man from 

 thofe of the mere Animal ; for, as God has intended that every a- 

 nimal fliould be happy, he has been fo bountiful as to annex to the 

 exercife of all his faculties a certain degree of Pleafure, and to the 

 higheft faculties, as is natural, the higheft Pleafure. And, therefore, 

 as Intelled is undoubtedly the higheft faculty of Man, the exercife 

 of it muft be attended with the greateft Pleafure. 



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