Strona 598 z 734

Now what it is, and how characterised, will be more plain if we

take up the subject afresh.

An act of Sight is thought to be complete at any moment; that is

to say, it lacks nothing the accession of which subsequently will

complete its whole nature.

Well, Pleasure resembles this: because it is a whole, as one may

say; and one could not at any moment of time take a Pleasure

whose whole nature would be completed by its lasting for a longer

time.