It is a certain inward state of the heart, and of the heart's affections.

For this inward state to be fully produced, and maintained generally, a certain sufficiency of material well-being may be requisite; but without this inward state such sufficiency will be morally valueless.

Day by day we must of course have our daily bread.

But the positivists must maintain, just as the Christians did, that man does not live by bread alone; and that his life does not consist in the abundance of the things that he possesses.

And thus when they are brought face to face with the matter, we find them all, with one consent, condemning as false the same allurements that were condemned by Christianity; and pointing, as it did, to some other treasure that will not wax old--some water, the man who drinks of which will never thirst more.
Now what is this treasure--this inward state of the heart?
What is its analysis, and why is it so precious?
As yet we are quite in the dark as to this.