But happiness must plainly be something besides benevolence; else, if I know that a man's highest happiness is in knowing that others are happy, all I shall try to procure for others is the knowledge that I am happy; and thus the Utopian happiness would be expressed completely in the somewhat homely formula, '_I am so glad that you are glad that I am glad_.' But this is, of course, not enough.

All this gladness must be about something besides itself.

Our good wishes for our neighbours must have some farther content than that they shall wish us well in return.

What I wish them and what they wish me must be something that both they and I, each of us, take delight in for ourselves.

It will certainly be no delight to men to procure for others what they will take no delight in themselves, if procured by others for them.