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Yet some pause and amusement in life are generally judged to be

indispensable.

The three mean states which have been described do occur in life,

and the object-matter of all is interchange of words and deeds.

They differ, in that one of them is concerned with truth, and the

other two with the pleasurable: and of these two again, the one

is conversant with the jocosities of life, the other with all

other points of social intercourse.

Chapter XI.

To speak of Shame as a Virtue is incorrect, because it is much

more like a feeling than a moral state. It is defined, we know,

to be "a kind of fear of disgrace," and its effects are similar

to those of the fear of danger, for they who feel Shame grow red

and they who fear death turn pale. So both are evidently in a way

physical, which is thought to be a mark of a feeling rather than

a moral state.