The Importance of Happiness

Happiness is manifestly something final and self-sufficient, being the end of all things which are and may be done. But to call happiness the chief good is a mere truism; what is wanted is some clear account of its real nature. Now this object may be easily attained, when we have discovered what is the work of man. We must take that which is in the way of actual working, because this is thought to be most properly entitled to the name. This again manifestly is common to horses, oxen, and every animal. There remains then a kind of life of the rational nature apt to act,. Of this nature there are two parts denominated rational, the one