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this is only because we have supported an impossible situation in which there was no providing for future desires.
We will, therfore, next consider whether provision for satisfying future instinctive desires is the only ultimate good, and if not whether it is, in itself a good at all. It will here be pertinent to remark that although the state of things last imagined would not be good for a man, yet it does not seem to differ much from the condition under which my dog, and mare, and poultry seem to be enviably happy. Still perhaps there maybe a delusion here. The dog, I can perceive considers that there is a heavy weight of responsibilty upon him, and so do the mature poultry. Even the mate is not without this feeling; and perhaps she is not so entirely happy as the other. If there were an