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accompaning the act itself.

Let us now consider whether the other premiss is true, that it is unthinkable that a many should act deliberately except for the sake of pleasure.
What is the element which it is in truth unthinkable that deliberate action should lack?
It is simply and solely the determination.
[ast] his determination remain, as it is certainly conceivable that it should remain although the very nerve of pleasure were cut so that the man wete perfectly insensible to pleasure and pain, and he will certainly pursue the line of conduct upon which he is intent.
The only effect would be to render the man's intentions more inflexible, - an effect, by the way, which we often have occasion to observe in men whose feelings are almost deadened by age or by some derangement of the brain.
But those who have reasoned in this fallacious way have confounded together the determination