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Our view will soon be cleared on these points when we have

ascertained what is properly the object-matter of Friendship: for

it is thought that not everything indiscriminately, but some

peculiar matter alone, is the object of this affection; that is

to say, what is good, or pleasurable, or useful. Now it would

seem that that is useful through which accrues any good or

pleasure, and so the objects of Friendship, as absolute Ends, are

the good and the pleasurable.