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CHAP. VI. 



fhe Suhjedl of this Chapter is Happhiefs; and the quejlloti is. What 

 makes the greatcjl Happinefs of men f — // is P leaf are that makes 

 Happinefs, — and Pleafure arifes from certain energies of Body or 

 Mind. — No Happinefs^ therefore, without energies of one kind or 

 another. — The feat of all Pleafure is the Mind;^and of the great- 

 efl Pleafure the Intellectual Mind, which is the nobleft part of our 

 Nature, — The Pleafure of this Mind is Thinking, that is forming 

 Ideas, and contemplating thefe Ideas. — This the Pleafure of Intel- 

 ligence, and confequently of Man, who is an intelligent creature,-^ 

 By thinking we know ; and how knowledge gives us delight is 

 el/e where explained, — Not every kind of knowledge gives the great- 

 e/l delight. — The knowledge of particular obje&s of Senfe does not, 



An account given how thefe particular Ideas are abftradted and 



generalized. — Such Ideas cf ohje&s of Senfe do not give the 

 frreatejl Pleafure. — // is the Ideas of Intelligence, of Superior hit eh 

 ligences, — of the Supreme — and of the frfl principles of things, 



Thefe form an Intellectual World in our Minds ; to live in which 



is our great efl Happinef. — Of the difference betwixt this Happinefs 

 and that of the practice of the Ethical Virtues. — Many things re- 

 quired for the practice of the Ethical Virtues, which the contempla- 

 tive life does not need. — The contemplative Philofopher may be faid 

 to live in another World — and in that refpeCl his Happinefs comes 

 the nearef to the Divine, — Example of fuch a life in Plot in us the 

 Alexandrian Philofopher. — One advantage which a Man, who 

 lives with himfelf has, is that he is fuperior to common opinion, 



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