352 THE MORALISTS: Part z.

Not so, I told him.

If brutes , therefore , said he , be incapable ofknowing and enjoying beauty , as being brutes,and having sense only, the brutish part, for theirown share; it follows, “ That neither can Man,“ by the same sense or brutish part, conceive or“ enjoy beauty: but all the beauty and good he" enjoys is in a nobler way , and by the help of" what is noblest., his Mind and Reason.” Herelies his dignity and highest interest : here is capa-city toward good and happiness. His ability orincompetency , his power of enjoyment , or hisimpotence, is founded in this alone. As this isfound, fair, noble, worthy; so are its subjects,acts, and employments. For as the riotous Mind,captive to sense, can never enter in competition,or contend for beauty with the virtuous Mind ofreason’s culture; so neither can the objects whichallure the former, compare with those which attractand charm the latter. And when each gratifiesitself in the enjoyment and possession of its object;how evidently fairer are the acts which join thelatter pair, and give a foul the enjoyment of whatis generous and good? This at least, Philocles ,you will surely allow, that when vou place a joyelsewhere than in the mind, the enjoyment itselfwill be no beautiful subject, nor of any gracefulor agreeable appearance. But when you thinkhow friendship is enjoyed, how honor, gratitude,Candor, benignity, and all internal beauty ; howall the social pleasures, society itself, and all whichconstitutes the worth and happiness of mankind;

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