1817 Dec 31

Not Paul

III. Doctrine

Ch. Asceticism

In so far as they are /it is/ greater, and come in competition with the pleasures /a

pleasure/ of the body and the pleasures of the body true it is that the pleasure of

the mind is better worth than the pleasure of the mind: true: but this is no less

true of every pleasure of the mind.

It is only in so far as competition has place in so much that by embracing the one a

man necessarily foregoes the other that in the superiority of value were it ever so

real and constant any rational cause for the foregoing of any pleasure of the body

could /can/ be found. But unless by accident between the pleasures of the body on the

one hand and the pleasures of the mind on the other no such competition really has

place—and by accident the like competition be the pleasures respectively what they

may—pleasures of the body or pleasures of the mind the like competition has place

between every pleasure and every other.