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Well of course, you may say, it is obvious that we must assert

those which are confessedly disgraceful to be real Pleasures,

except to depraved tastes: but of those which are thought to be

good what kind, or which, must we say is The Pleasure of Man? is

not the answer plain from considering the Workings, because the

Pleasures follow upon these?

If then there be one or several Workings which belong to the

perfect and blessed man, the Pleasures which perfect these

Workings must be said to be specially and properly The Pleasures

of Man; and all the rest in a secondary sense, and in various

degrees according as the Workings are related to those highest

and best ones.

Chapter V.

Now that we have spoken about the Excellences of both kinds, and

Friendship in its varieties, and Pleasures, it remains to sketch

out Happiness, since we assume that to be the one End of all

human things: and we shall save time and trouble by

recapitulating what was stated before.