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that accords with my ideals, with my legislative conscience, with my synderesis, as the catholic theologians call it, breaks down the distinction between virtue and vice, they would have very happy judicial consciences not to be aware that many acts are not well considered in that sense, although they are not entirely involuntary.
But that is not what they say.
They say that the satisfaction, if it be satisfaction that they mean, is the motive of every deliberate act and the sole object of every desire.
It is neither.
It is not the sole motive of the act since it is subsequent to the act.
As for satisfaction being the object of a desire that is quite unthinkable.
Suppose that in ypour afternoon constitutional you we to meet a lady who was exclaiming "Oh how I wish! How I only wish."
You ask "Madame what is it that you wish?"
"Why simply that the wish were gratified"
"But what wish is the