We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization and perfect exercise of virtue, and this not conditional, but absolute. And I used the term 'conditional' to express that which is indispensable, and 'absolute' to express that which is good in itself.

Politica, by B. Jowett. Oeconomica, by E. S. Forster. Atheniensium respublica, by Sir F. G. Kenyon. 1921 (ed. 1921)