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Logic
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or not, each of those in term could contend us as the sole ultimate good independently of any ulterior result, and if not whether it can be considered to bein itself a good or all, irrespective of its effects. I shall arrange my list so as to commence with the most particular satisfactions and proceed step by step to the most general. But since there are in each grate several kinds of satisfactions, & shall begin in each grade of generality with the most immediate and selfish and go on by steps to the most subservient.
I begin, then, whith simple satisfactions of the moment. The most immediate of these is the simple satisfaction of a direct instinct. I am thirsty and I want a drink. Now our shifty witness, consciousness, is very ready with her answer that a drink is good but that