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If certain Some Philosophers have thought right that of all these
the are pleasures that can be assigned there are none
but what have the pleasures of the body for
their ultimate foundation
there are no pleasures [+] [+] how much superior in themselves to the pleasure of the body but have their source
in the pleasures of the body: according to this
System all pleasures that are would come
within the foregoing division — they are either
immediately pleasures of the body — pleasures derived
from the possession of instruments capable fit to
of produce pleasures of the body pleasures of possession or pleasures
consisting from derived the expectation of possessing such instruments —
pleasures of expectation
This seems at least probable to those who
agree to Locke's proposition opinion of the non-existence
of innate ideas: it seems a necessary branch
of that opinion: tho' perhaps upon accurate
inspection it may be found to be otherwise.
If there are no pleasures purely of the mind
This division will take in all the pleasures
that there are — pleasures of enjoyment pleasures of the body —
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pleasures of the mind consisting in the expectation
of pleasures of the body
If there are pleasures which take their are of the
seat in the mind's own growth, which
start up and take their seat in it without
having enter'd in at the great vestibules
of the bodily senses, this division will
still serve also for them 1 pleasures of
enjoyment, pleasures of the mind: 2. pleasures
of expectation, pleasures also of the mind.
Whether there are such or no
The question is interesting. but in this place we must
be content to leave it as we found it.
In a System of Ethics it would be the 1st
enquiry. It would there be the bussiness
to earn search out to enumerate to class to aestimate every
species that can be distinguished. But what
we are now sketching + + The subject we are now upon is Jurisprudence is a System of Jurisprudence.
Let us now speak now of pains.
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The pleasure of curiosity which is the stimulus
to physical researches may be founded
upon one or other of the following motives,
by any every one of which it may communicate with
the physical enjoyment pleasures of the body
1 The hope of fame. reputation This is the most powerful
and the most common motive
2. The hope of riches — to accrue either from the
putting in practise the discoveries themselves
if applicable to the encrease of physical
enjoyments: at least from the making
3 them public, if they be a proper element
for the curiosity of other men.
2 The above profits depend upon there discoveries
being communicated. Supposing all intention of
communicating them however confused & remote out of the question
which I suppose is very rare, we are then
reduced to the following motives
3. The hope of being entertained with some the perception
of some new property phenomenon or other agreeable
to the sense.
4. The hope of a man's meeting with occasions to
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confirm him in the general opinion of his own sagacity,
that is of his intellectual powers,
which powers when subsisting in a high
degree it is not known that they may be turned to the acquisition
of the instruments of physical enjoyment
as of any thing else
Powers apparently Superior powers howsoever employ'd are the object of admiration
and esteem to the Public. 1st because it
knows not but that if not on this, on some
other occasion they may be convertible to
it's advantage. 2dly Because it cannot
on the sudden perfectly distinguish what
sort of pursuits may prove useful to it
and what not. That in question may therefore
prove useful to it for ought it can
be certain. Pursuits confessedly the most useful
might puzzle a man on the sudden to
assign how they came to be so in what their utility particularly consists in what particular respects they are so
INTROD. Ch. II. Happiness — it's ingredients [ Whether any purely mental.
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