said she, 'not one whit fairer than this which reason persuades us to add.'
'Why, what?' said I.
'Why, seeing happiness has many particulars included under it, should all these be regarded as forming one body of happiness, as it were, made up of various parts, or is there some one of them which forms the full essence of happiness, while all the rest are relative to this?'
'I would thou wouldst unfold the whole matter to me at large.'
'We judge happiness to be good, do we not?'
'Yea, the supreme good.'
'And this superlative applies to all; for this same happiness is adjudged to be the completest independence, the highest power, reverence, renown, and pleasure.'
'What then?'
'Are all these goods—independence, power, and the rest—to be deemed members of happiness, as it were, or are they all relative