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nevertheless the determination of my being does influence my conduct.
All action in accordance with a determination is accompanied by a feeling that is pleasurable; but whether this feeling at any instant is felt as pleasurable in that very instant or whether the recognition of it as pleasurable comes a little later is a question of fact difficult to make sure about, and therefore it is necessary, in order to judge of it to get at the facts about that feeling as accurately as we can.
In beginning to perform any series of acts which had been determined upon beforehand, there is a certain sense of joy, an anticipation and commencement of a relaxion of the tension of need, which we now become more conscioud of than we had been before.
In the act itself taking place at any instant, it may be that we are conscious of pleasure; although that is doubtful.
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