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Man who has learned to make the diftindion, that I have learn- 

 X~3L ed to make from anllcnt authors, betwixt the feveral kinds of 

 mind in our fyilem, (which, I am afraid, many of thofe, who call 

 themfelves philofophers now a days, have not learned,) will be able 

 to difcover what is the greateft happinefs we are capable of in our 

 prefent ftate : — A moft important difcovery, without which no man. 

 can be fo happy as he would otherwife be. It is Pleafure that makes 

 happinefs, which is produced by certain energies or operations of 

 body or mind, from which arife certain feelings of the mind, that 

 are pleafurable. As, therefore, w^e are all deftined by nature to 

 be happy, and as there can be no happinefs without energies of 

 one kind or another, it is evident, that an animal, who does not 

 a£l nor do any thing of any kind, cannot be happy : And, 

 therefore, all men are by nature difpofed, even cur children, to adt 

 in fome way or another ; fo that thofe men, who live without do- 

 ing any thing, are in a mofl: unnatural ftate, and confequently moil 

 unhappy. TTie feat of all pleafure, therefore, is the mind ; and as 

 we have only two minds in us, t'lat have that feeling, or emotion, 

 which we call pleajure., the intelle6lu .1 and the animal minds, the 

 queftion is. Which of the two kinds of pleafure, perceived by thefe 

 two minds, is the greateft, and makes the chief happinefs of man ? 

 Now, as our intelledual mind is the nobleft part of our nature, 

 and that which governs or fhould govern all our little world, it is 

 evident that the pleafures of it muft be the greateft happinefs of 

 w^hich our nature is capable : And, as our intelled: is that particle 

 of divinity which is in us, it is not without reafon that Ariilotle calls 

 the pleafure, which arifes from it, divine. 



The pleafure of this kind muft confift in thinking ; and the fub- 



jcO: of thinking is ideas, not fenfations, (that is perceptions of fenfe. 



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