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"Knowledge is not our proper Happiness. Whoever will in the least

attend to the thing will see that it is the gaining, not the

having, of it, which is the entertainment of the mind." The two

statements may however be reconciled. Aristotle may be well

understood only to mean, that the pursuit of knowledge will be

the pleasanter, the freer it is from the minor hindrances which

attend on learning.

[15] The clause immediately following indicates that Aristotle

felt this statement to be at first sight startling, Happiness

having been all the way through connected with [Greek: energeia],

but the statement illustrates and confirms what was said in note

on page 6, 1. 15.

[16] That is to say, he aims at producing not merely a happy

aggregate, but an aggregate of happy individuals. Compare what is

said of Legislators in the last chapter of Book I and the first

of Book II.

[17] See note, page 146, 1. 17.