368 The Evil and Folly of Covetoufne f . SE K M. confift in them, or depend on them, fine XI. they can minifter no comfort at all in the ``v"") greateft exigence ? It is plain that the total: amount of their ufefulnefs to the purpofes of enjoyment is only this, that when other circumftances concur to render a man capable, they afford the larger means of it in various kinds ; firft, Of fenfual gratifications ; 2dly, The pleafures of the fancy or imagination ; idly, Of doing good to his fellow creatures, either his own near relations or others, as his difpofition inclineth him. This is, I think, ftating the cafe fairly, and allowing all to riches which can be demanded for them. Let us now confider each of thefe particu- Iars, that we may fee of what importance they are to happinefs, fo far, I mean, as they are fupplied, and the opportunities of them enlarged by riches. And, $rft, the pleafures of fenfe are of the very loweft kind, which a man confidering as common with us to the brutal fpecies cannot but think far from the chief happinefs of a reafonable nature, and that the advantage of furnifhing us with great plenty and variety of them is not extremely to be valued or gloried in. Befides, there are certain bounds fixed by nature. itfelf to the appetites, beyond which we cannot pats in the gratification of them without d,eftroying en-
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