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Its premiss, that pleasure is the only concievable result that is perfectly self-satisfied, must be granted.
Only in these days of evolutionary ideas which are traceable to the French Revolution as their instigator, and still further back to Galileo's experiment at learning tower of Pisa, and still further back to all the stands that have been made by Luther and even by Robert of Lincoln against attempts to bind down human Reason to any prescriptions fixed in advance, - in these days, I say, when these ideas of progress and growth have themselves grown up so as occupy our minds as they now do, how can we be expected, allow the assumption to pass that the