1818 1 Jan y

Not Paul

III. Doctrine

Ch. Asceticism

If all pleasure every sensation of the pleasurable kind were taken away, life would be left altogether without value: it would all be being without well-being being it would have, well-being it would have none. But if all pleasure /sensations of the pleasurable kind/ were taken away, pain /those of the painful kind/ would not thereby be taken away: life would be an alternation of pain and insensibility: life would be the condition of the only perceptible /sensible/ part of it: a stone would be an object of envy to a man living such a life.

That either pride or terror had ever gone so far as to extend the proscriptions directly and purposely to the pleasures of the mind, it might perhaps be too much to say: not so that they have included in it all pleasures of the body of which the body is in any part the seat. Yet if sensation were taken away understanding goes /would go/ along with it: if all pleasures of the body were taken away along with them would go the pleasures of the mind.

With all this before their eyes for to what eyes can it ever have been unobvious men so far gone in asceticism have nevertheless not been wanting /yet been found/ to whom pleasure has been an object of unceasing war /hostility and proscription/ wherever they have found or fancied it. In the lump under that its generic name collectively and again in any particular shape in which they have seen it or supposed it to be lurking!