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a difference of opinion I think it is.
I think that in physical pleasure, the satisfaction is entirely distinct from the quality of feeling called pleasure and consists in a consciousness subsequent to the pleasure that what has taken place answers to a great need that has been felt before the pleasure.
But let that question pass.

If the writers who are deluded by this fallacy really meant to say that the only motive to action is the desire for pleasure, taking pleasure in its proper sense of a simple quality of feeling (I am not using psychological terminology but am taking quality in a wider sense) then their doctrine would be false enough, but it would not be absurd; and it would certainly follow that there was no distinction of right and wrong.
But their insistence upon the unthinkableness of deliberate action's having any other motive than pleasure shows that they confound pleasure with satisfaction, that is, an individual event with an accord between an event and