"Oh," he replied, "it's all summed up, I suppose, in the fact that they are Goods of sense, and not of intellect or of imagination."
"Is it then," I asked, "a defect in content that you are driving at? Do you mean that they satisfy only a part of our nature, not the whole? For that, I suppose, would be equally true of the other Goods you mentioned, such as those of the intellect."
"Yes," he replied, "but it is the inferior part to which the Goods we are speaking of appeal."
"Perhaps; but in what respect inferior?"
"Why, simply as the body is inferior to the soul."
"But how is that? You will think me very stupid, but the more I think of it the less I understand this famous distinction between body and soul, and the relation of one to the other."
"I doubt," said Wilson, "whether there is a distinction at all."
"I don't say that," I replied. "I only say that I can't understand it; and I should be thankful, if possible, to keep it out of our discussion."
"So should I!" said Wilson.
"Well, but," Leslie protested, "how can we?"