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 OBJECTS OF DEVELOPMENT it is supposed he oher person is experiencing, 845 and a pleasant or painful state of feeling is thus evoked. H an unpleasant feeling is experienced, then the per- son thus feeling by sympathy to mitigate the supposed state of the other person..It must be of most charitably disposed persons sympathy is aroused by imagining tends to take action of, painful sensations within the experience that occasionally a person to be suffering painfully when such is not at all the case, and an offer of comfort or alleviation is rejected, or the person supposed to be suffering may prove to be a fraud acting cleverly. Yet so intense was the pain caused by imagination in the charitably disposed person that he was impelled to offer help and find out the fact. So far we have states of feeling which Pleasure may arising from been dealing with become motives of pleasant be defined as the a particular sensation. Happiness momentary. action. feeling and ! Hass has been defined. by Lester Ward in his Pur 8ociologz thus: "The greater part o.f all -happiness conrests in stisfying des. irea" (p. lot ) ; "Men are always subject to it great number of desires, and xf a fair shsre of them are ntisfled at intervals of time there re.suits s genersl state which !s eftlied happiness" (p. 106)[ "the norffml exermse of every organ or faculty Is attended with pleasure, end in health the sum total of &11 these pleasures, modefete stud strong, constitutes the state eftlied happiness. . ., Happiness ' * ' * * It is zubjeotve wh de wrtue is ob]eotwe. ( p. 181 ). The secdnd thesis is a normarive statement accepted by the utilitarian school as the fundamental criterion aroused are experienced, and react upon feeling so that. or balance of the rnount of feeling multiplied by time) is positive,. that the resultant (i.e. intensity is pleasant.  of feeling existing throughout a period during whi,;h many different sensations both peripherally and centrally unhappiness, on the other hand, are terms which relate to the rsultant or balance of feeling for a certain duration of time, which in the common usage of the word would hwrdly relate to less than one or two hours. Happiness may thus be defined as the state