happiness or misery. In quite another sense those things are said to be indifferent which are without the power of stirring inclination or aversion ; e.g. the fact that the number of hairs on one's head is odd or even or whether you hold out your finger straight or bent. But it was not in this sense that the things mentioned above Mere termed indifferent, they being quite capable of exciting inclination or aversion. Hence of these latter some are taken by preference, others are rejected, whereas indifference in the other sense affords no ground for either choosing or avoiding. Of things indifferent, as they express it, some are 11 preferred," others " rejected." Such as have value, they say, are " preferred," while such as have negative, instead of positive, value are " rejected." Value they define as, first, any contribution to harmonious living, such as attaches to every good ; secondly, some faculty or use which indirectly a contributes to the life according to nature : which is as much as to say " any assistance brought by wealth or health towards living a natural life " ; thirdly, value is the full equivalent of an appraiser, as fixed by an expert acquainted with the facts — as when it is said that wheat exchanges for so much barley with a mule thrown in. 6 Thus things of the preferred class are those which have positive value, e.g. amongst mental qualities, natural ability, skill, moral improvement, and the like ; among bodily qualities, life, health, strength, good condition, soundness of organs, beauty, and so forth ; and in the sphere of external things, wealth,