ABSTRACT
In human life we find the four outer and inner factors, still more multiform and entangled in their compositions and connections. There is that property of the external object which primarily affects the organism — the taste, smell, or opacity; and connected with such property there is in the external object that character which renders seizure of it, or escape from it, beneficial. Within the organism there is the impression or sensation which the property produces, serving as stimulus; and there is connected with it, the motor change by which seizure or escape is effected. For the general truth that guidance by such simple pleasures and pains as result from fulfilling or denying bodily desires, is, under one aspect, inferior to guidance by those pleasures and pains which the complex ideal feelings yield, has led to the belief that the promptings of bodily desires should be disregarded.
