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Naturally, the imaginative apprehension of meaning cannot promise the certainty of dispassionate, logical investigation; but, nonetheless, the former involves a profound faith without which we definitely cannot live well, and without which we sometimes cannot live at all - a lesson learned by Mill at age twenty.

Virtue for its own sake is desired only by those who recognize its intrinsic value - by those who appreciate that virtue is integral to happiness.