 The simple story, to be complicated shortly, runs this way. Hutcheson holds that the moral sense is a greater repository of pleasure than the other senses. He says, in many places, that the operation of the moral sense provides more pleasure than the operation of the other senses, internal and external. Hutcheson states, in the Inquiry, that the moral sense “gives us more Pleasure and Pain that all our other Facultys” (Inquiry, 163). In the Essay, Hutcheson writes: 