Desire is an uneasiness. The greatest present uneasiness usually determines the will, as is evident in experience. Because uneasiness being a part of unhappiness which is first to be removed in our way to happiness. Because uneasiness alone is present. The uneasiness of other passions have their share with desire.
Happiness alone moves the desire.
All absent good not desired, because not necessary to our happiness. The greatest uneasiness does not always determine the will, we can suspend the execution of our desires. Knowledge is gained by the input from the five senses-and the experiences so entered fill the blackboard and create the knowledge. My notions in this treatise has run me . . . Not to add, that though our general or specific conception of matter makes us speak of it as one thing, yet really all matter is not one individual thing, neither is there any such thing existing as one material being or one body, that we know or can conceive.