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Logic IV. 160

to the approach of what we deem good; so that to say that pleasure is per se a good is not only to maintain that the ultimate good consists in holding something to be good, but further that it elevates instinctive feeling as the [court] of last appear; while on the other hand, no people were more ready than the Greeks to look upon knowledge as a mode of union with God. There is an old Greek prayer that the Anglican Book of [Heommon?] Bayer very appropriately places at the end of both Morning and Evening Service, which sums up in two phrases the ends of all prayers, and therefore of all Good. "Fulfill, then, now the petitions of thy slaves to their advantage, granting us in the present world knowledge of they truth, and in the future, one giving the grace of eternal life." [ancient greek?]. That is to say, in this life, the only thing we really do desire is such infusion of divinity as mortals can attain, namely into the intellect, while iin

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