ABSTRACT
Pleasure is the satisfaction of people impulses, pain is their thwarting. The pleasant or unpleasant quality of a feeling is the representation in our consciousness of the satisfaction or dissatisfaction of the impulses that actuate people. Various forms of satisfaction, that of the glutton and that of the hero, differ not because they weigh or measure more, but because they are the satisfaction of different impulses. The appeal of strong or high impulses is quite independent of the physiological contrivance of pleasure and pain. The scope of that activity which is in people conscious is entirely confined to the sphere of means by which unformulated impulses strive towards realization in action. The source and the ultimate end of those actions are unrepresented in consciousness. Life reacts to experience, to feeling, to pleasure and pain; but that reaction is determined by the conative disposition of which it is the expression in consciousness.
