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you value it? How many years of purgatory would you be willing to endure for the sake of it? Come speak up. Would you endure five minutes of toothache? For the knowledge that you had or were about to have the strqange experience perhaps. But this would be an effect. You must suppse that you were to be utterly ignorant of whether you had or were about to have any such feeling. Would it not be precisely the same thing as if this had happened to some other being say to a mosquito with this difference that the mosquito is your neighbor with whom you have some grain of sympathy? While this isolated instant would really have no existence at all? I think I hear you murmur that an absolutely simple satisfaction would be an absurdity. Then such satisfaction is no part of the good. Still it might be said that this result is owing to the absurd hy-

you value it? How many years of purgatory would you be willing to endure for the sake of it? Come speak up. Would you endure five minutes of toothache? For the knowledge that you had or were about to have the [Dr?] experience perhaps. But this would be an effect. You must suppse that you were to be utterly ignorant of whether you had or were about to have any such feeling. Would it not be precisely the same thing as if this had happened to some other being say to a mosquito with this difference that the mosquito is your neighbor with whom you have some grain of sympathy? While this isolated instant would really have no existence at all? I think I hear you murmur that an absolutely simple satisfaction would be an absurdity. Then such satisfaction is no part of the good. Still it might be said that this result is owing to the absurd hy-