Essay on Happiness

The number of good men like that of the governing is vastly exceeded by that of the wicked like the governed ; but still so great is the;nherert force of virtue that the former hate ever been from the commencement of the world the coquering and the predominant party. [...] The succession of the gratification of a desire to its feeling is the process by which God creates the majorit of human enjoyments and the degree of the delight felt from a fulfilled want is exactly in proportion t:; the intensity of itseeling. [...] The variegated beautiful colors and sweet odors of numerous flowers the singing dancing and the rich variety of beautiful plumage of the feathered tribe the sublime and plesing magnificence of -the star-bespangled heavens the wonderful and all-cheering splendour of the solar orb daily exhibited to view the soft and delicate beauty of the queen of night the rich variety of fruits and roots [...] Education is the proper ioculation of the human mind with the thoughts and feelings of good and wise men and the result would be proportienate to the %kill of the inoculator. [...] The existence of pain and pleasure led to the belief of the Egyptian Osiris and Typhon and the Christian God and ratan but pain and pleasure are not enemies but the friends of each other and are co-operating for the attainment of the same object.