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satisfaction of his natural wants or wliicli irives 

 him sensation of uneasiness, pain or fear. 



He judges in this way because it is an in- 

 stinctive law with all animals that they should 

 seek pleasure, i. e. things whicli procure tliem sen- 

 sations of pleasure and allow them to satisfy their 

 natural wants — which satisfaction is accompanied 

 by a sensation of pleasure — and should flee pain, 

 i. e. ilee the things which give them sensations of 

 uneasiness, real physical pain or fear, which are 

 accompanied by a sensation of displeasure or pain, 

 and those which preyent them fyom satisfying their 

 natural and instinctiye wants. 



These are the criteria of his judgments. He jud- 

 ges f/ood the man who gives him food and drink 

 and caresses him and is useful to him in any way 

 and gives him pleasure, and he loves and wishes 

 for that man. He judges h((d the man wli(» pre- 

 vents him from satisfying his natural wants, who 

 ill-treats him and gives him associations of pain, 

 and he dislikes him, seeks to flee him if lie is timid 

 and to resist and attack him if he is spirited. 



From this fact arises the necessity for us, if we 



