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Suetonius records that a Roman tyrant offered a Premium
to the inventor of a new pleasure.

Since that time many a moralist has numbered the Tyrant's
desire to create a new enjoyment among that Tyrant's most
obnoxious crimes.

Yet to the discovery of unexperienced gratifications
a great portion of his own man's anxiety is directed. From
the moment human beings associate that object becomes their
prominent concern. In proportion to their aggregate
number are their efforts to provide some untasted enjoyment.
Every newspaper is filled bears evidence of the attempt
The list of theatrical exhibitions, – is a list by which
an appeal is made to attention by rarities & novelties –
by something in the shape of pleasure untasted unenjoyed before.

But it will be said – The Tyrant was
a sensualist – his desire was for some other sensual gratification.
He desired that wanted to make his senses subservient to the production
of some new delight. What then? Had he succeeded it
would have been the better for him & the better for us.
And as to pleasure of which the senses are not to be
the instruments – let colors be presented to the blind –
mu sic to the deaf – or motion to the lifeless.

Page 271. As a matter of fact however, civilization –
knowledge – commerce, have invented new pleasures. And
no generation passes away without adding something to the
stock of the generation that preceded it. The discovery of
another hemisphere America opened a host of unexperienced
gratifications to our hemisphere.

And what various & valuable pleasures has
not the progress of philosophy brought with it. The experiments
of Chemistry – the discoveries of Astronomy – the Telescope –
the Microscope – the mechanical powers Natural History –
in a word – the world of modern science – a world more

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