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gustatory enjoyment from the same food that turns the stom- 

 ach of another. True, a taste for the fine arts must be culti- 

 vated, although the sensorium will thereby be subject to pain 

 from discords in sounds, and incongruities in colors and forms. 

 But in respect to diet, regimen and manners it is hazardous 

 to cultivate the sensibilities till we become disgusted with al- 

 most every thing we meet, and make ourselves objects of ridi- 

 cule for our peculiarities. 



779. — 7. A higher kind of Happiness than that de- 

 rived from the Senses . — Finally, we ought to remember that 

 enjoyment gained through the senses, is not the highest kind of 

 happiness for man. Thou h it be all, or nearly so, which the 

 brute can enjoy, yet the intellectual and moral powers of man 

 demand of him the control of his sensual desires, and a love 

 for that which is far higher and purer, For thus will all his 

 faculties be engaged in their appropriate sphere, and keep 

 bright till the end of life, and as its evening shadows steal 

 upon him, they will find him not full of disease and low de- 

 sires, but peaceful and happy, ready to make a change from 

 bodily to spiritual realities, almost without a sigh and with 

 exulting anticipations. 



T79. Is sensual happiness superseded by no higher enjoyment? 



