administrative report lix 



Ambrosial I'leasures 



Pleasures arise as demotic arts when tliey are designed to 

 please others — the people. A lad may play ball for his own 

 j)leasure; but the ])rofessional ball player [days for others, his 

 own immediate purpose being gain or welfare. This distinc- 

 tion must be kept in view: Pleasures are fii'st egoistic, but soon 

 become altruistic. When they become altruistic as pleasures 

 they become egoistic as industries. 



The metabolic sense is the sense of taste and smell, these 

 being varieties of one sense. While yet in the animal state, 

 man learns to enjoy the ambrosial senses in partaking of food 

 and drink and in inhaling the air laden with luiiiiv particles 

 given off by natural Ijodies; but in passing into the human state 

 man invents a multiplicity of devices for making his food and 

 drink and the air which he breathes pleasurable. All ambrosial 

 {jleasures are developed by experience, but the process of en- 

 hancing pleasures has its antithesis in the evolution of pain; 

 hence many ])leasures and their antitheses, ])ains, have been 

 evolved during the historic period. Without entering into a 

 systematic treatment of the subject, it may be well to illustrate 

 this statement as the facts are shown in individual experience 

 and in the liistor}- of peoples. 



When the uninitiated })erson first attempts to use tobacco in 

 any form it is unpleasant or even loathsome; but gradually by 

 experience he leams to tolerate it and finally' to enjoy it. If 

 its use was univei'sal with men, women, and (•liildren,it can not 

 be doubted that an hereditary love of tobacco would be devel- 

 oped, and thus the taste of tobacco would liecome innate and 

 the judgment of its pleasant eriects would be intuitive. Its 

 extensive use seems to indicate a tendency to an hereditary 

 love of tobacco us(m1 in one or another of the cu.stomai'vmctliods, 

 although the jjeriod for which it has been used dates no farther 

 back than the discovery of America. That which we wish to 

 emphasize in this place is that the pleasure derived from the 

 usage is artificial and is developed by experience, and that 

 wliilc new pleasures onginate, antitlictic ])iiius arise l)y the 

 development of an a])])etitc which, un<:Ti\titicd. is pain. 



