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As for those who object that "what all aim at is not necessarily

good," I confess I cannot see much in what they say, because what

all think we say is. And he who would cut away this ground from

under us will not bring forward things more dependable: because

if the argument had rested on the desires of irrational creatures

there might have been something in what he says, but, since the

rational also desire Pleasure, how can his objection be allowed

any weight? and it may be that, even in the lower animals, there

is some natural good principle above themselves which aims at the

good peculiar to them.