7. Joy.
Joy is a delight of the mind, from the consideration of the present or assured approaching possession of a good;
and we are then possessed of any good, when we have it so in our power that we can use it when we please. Thus
a man almost starved has joy at the arrival of relief, even before he has the pleasure of using it: and a father, in
whom the very well-being of his children causes delight, is always, as long as his children are in such a state, in
the possession of that good; for he needs but to reflect on it, to have that pleasure.
