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[24] Another and perhaps more obvious method of rendering this

passage is to apply [Greek: kalon kagathon] to things, and let

them depend grammatically on [Greek: epaeboli]. It is to be

remembered, however, that [Greek: kalos kagathos] bore a special

and well-known meaning also the comparison is in the text more

complete, and the point of the passage seems more completely

brought out.

[25] "Goodness always implies the love of itself, an affection to

goodness." (Bishop Butler, Sermon xiii ) Aristotle describes

pleasure in the Tenth Book of this Treatise as the result of any

faculty of perception meeting with the corresponding object,

vicious pleasure being as truly pleasure as the most refined and

exalted. If Goodness then implies the love of itself, the

percipient will always have its object present, and pleasure

continually result.