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SCIENCE state of its beirig to manifest itself to a certain extent. It is, thus, not the imbibing or absorbing of anything from without but the removal of an obstruction, the pulling or drawing out of a kind of mental stopper, which enables the natural effervescence of the soul to be enjoyed at the time. The idea of pleasure cannot bere keep pace with that of joy, in any sense ; for while true joy is the sense, or rather the sensation, of freedom from the burden of worry and anguish imposed by some liability or limitation, pleasure depends on contact, whether real or imaginary, with an external ob. ject, and conveys no idea of freedom in its unqualified import.
The feeling of joy which is rooted in the idea of freedom, it will be further noticed, is not a momentary sensation like pleasure, but lingers in the soul till the imposition of some fresh obstruction or obligation or infliction of pain or worry in some other form, again obstructs, its manifetation.
We also observe that success is more than one enterprise at the same time augments our sense of delight and intensifies its quaility. It is, therefore, safe to say that the greater the sense of freedom, the greater the pulsation of de-light, so that absolute freedom from all kinds of undertakings, limitations and obligations must actually be the signal for the coming into manifestation of the intensest kind of blissful ecstacy, the undy. ing, unabating, and unchanging emotion of joy. We thus conclude that the soul is itself the real source of
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