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Again, we think Pleasure must be in some way an ingredient in

Happiness, and of all Workings in accordance with Excellence that

in the way of Science is confessedly most pleasant: at least the

pursuit of Science is thought to contain Pleasures admirable for

purity and permanence; and it is reasonable to suppose that the

employment is more pleasant to those who have mastered, than to

those who are yet seeking for, it.[14]