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§. 2. Well-being--it's dependence on particular Sensibility.
In regard to well being quality as well as quantity requires
to be taken into account
Quantity depends upon general sensibility
sensibility to pleasure and pain in general; quality upon
particular sensibility: upon a man's being more sensible
to pleasure or pain from this or that source than to &
from this or that other.
To every man, by competent attention and observation
the quality of his own sensibility may be made known;
It may be known by the most impressive and infallible of all
evidence direct the evidence of a man's own
To no man, can the quality of any other man ability in the of
be made known by may take equally particular and fallacious
evidence; countenance, gesture, deportment, contemporary
conduct at the time. subsequent conduct at other subsequent
times — by all these separately or collectively from each of these articles of circumstancestaken
much and unambiguous may be deduced
than from any real direct evidence as can be constituted
and delivered by any verbal account given by him of his own
feelings.
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