cuando, hacia cada acción voluntaria, es la INCOMODIDAD DEL DESEO, fijada en algún bien ausente: * ya sea negativo, como la indolencia para quien sufre dolor; * o positivo, como el disfrute del placer. > Que es esta incomodidad la que determina la voluntad hacia las sucesivas acciones voluntarias de las cuales se compone la mayor parte de nuestras vidas, y por medio de las cuales somos conducidos a través de diferentes rumbos hacia diferentes fines, me esforzaré por demostrarlo, tanto a partir de la experiencia como de la razón misma de
- Esta es la Primavera de la Acción.
When a man is perfectly content with the state he is in—which is when he is perfectly without any uneasiness—what industry, what action, what will is there left, but to continue in it? Of this every man’s observation will satisfy him. And thus we see our all-wise Maker, suitably to our constitution and frame, and knowing what it is that determines the will, has put into man the uneasiness of hunger and thirst, and other natural desires, that return at their seasons, to move and determine their wills, for the preservation of themselves, and the continuation of their species. For I think we may conclude, that, if the BARE CONTEMPLATION of these good ends to which we are carried by these several uneasinesses had been sufficient to determine the will, and set us on work, we should have had none of these natural pains, and perhaps in this world little or no pain at all. > ‘It is better to marry than to burn,’ says St. Paul, where we may see what it is that chiefly drives men into