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Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics

PART II
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There is the same variety of evil.
His next topic is Pleasure.

As sense is, in _reality_, motion, but, in '_apparence_,' light or sound or odour; so appetite, in reality a motion or endeavour effected in the heart by the action of objects through the organs of sense, is, in 'apparence,' delight or trouble of mind.

The emotion, whose _apparence_ (_i.e._, subjective side) is pleasure or delight, seems to be a corroboration of vital motion; the contrary, in the case of molestation.

Pleasure is, therefore, the sense of good; displeasure, the sense of evil.

The one accompanies, in greater or less degree, all desire and love; the other, all aversion and hatred.


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