APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
There is another .sufficiently obvious fact, which renders the hypothesis that the course of sentiment nature is dictated by malevolence quite untenable. A vast multitude of pleasures, and there among the purest and the best, are superfluities bits of good which are to all appearance unnecessary a s inducements to live, and are, so to speak thrown into the bargain of life. To those who experience them, few delights can be more entrancing than such as are allorded by natural beauty, or by the arts, and especially by music; but they arc products of, rather than factors in, evolution, and it is probable tlial they are known, in any considerable degree, to but a very small proportion or mankind. Pulniniias.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1932, Page 1
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