all security, and necessarily exposed us to the greatest bodily evils.
All the pleasures and pains of the mind were, according to Epicurus, ultimately de|rived from those of the body. The mind was happy when it thought of the past plea|sures of the body, and hoped for others to come: and it was miserable when it thought of the pains which the body had formerly endured, and dreaded the same or greater thereafter.
But the pleasures and pains of the mind, tho' ultimately derived from those of the body, were vastly greater than their origi|nals. The body felt only the sensation of the present instant, whereas the mind felt also the past and the future, the one by re|membrance, the other by anticipation, and consequently both suffered and enjoyed much more. When we are under the greatest bodily pain, he observed, we shall always find, if we attend to it, that it is not the suf|fering of the present instant which chiefly ••orments us, but either the agonizing re|membrance of the past, or the yet more hor|••ible dread of the future. The pain of each ••nstant, considered by itself, and cut off from ••ll that goes before and all that comes after
