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which draw them forth. Desire is an emotion essentially of the same character, whatever that be to which it attaches. The mind does not remain indifferent to those things and states which it sees to concern its enjoyments. This fact is expressed in a feeling toward them which we term desire. A desire is the inclination of the mind toward things which it sees to be the direct or indirect sources of pleasure. It rests back as a secondary feeling on those primary sensibilities to which the world directly ministers. Now the variety of objects which gratify man, and the variety of their separate ministrations are so great, that it is not easy to give an exhaustive classification of them. Those general words which divide, yet include the most of the things pursued by men, are wealth, power, honor; truth, beauty, and virtue.

It is easy to fall into confusion in speaking of the desires. The difficulty arises chiefly from not keeping the words by which we express them at the same grade of generalization. A great variety of means, near and remote, general and special, separates our actions from the ultimate gratifications at which they aim. These gratifications, lying in the outer circle and due to constitutional appetites, passions, tastes, are the grounds of the desires, which attach to any or all of these intervening means. It is these means that are grouped under very abstract general expressions, and classified as the desires. If the classification is to be of any worth, it must take place at one grade of generalization, must lie in and cover one circle, to the exclusion on the one side of still more general terms, and on the other of more specific ones. Thus wealth, power, honor, by honor are meant positions and circumstances of honor beauty, truth, virtue unite to cover the two halves of one circle of the generalized objects of human effort. Knowledge is not added, because it is divided between power and