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30 Aug 1814 §. 3

Logic or Deontology Ch Well-being

4 §.3. Well being predominant

By an ill considered expression, Locke, a man worth
a hundred Manpertine'ses has given countenance to a
usher at once so false, so uncomfortable and so promising
According to him uneasiness is what every action has for
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its source. If this be true, a proposition not easily found
desirable is that uneasiness is the state in which every man who acts: viz: as often as he
acts and for as long as he acts.

But, in so far as it exists, this uneasiness
what is it? Incidentally, it will indeed be this or that according
to the situation, in which on each occasion the man in question is.
Necessarily however it will be it is no more than this: viz: a
presentiment source of a capacity of enjoying at some future time
a pleasure not enjoyed at the time in question at the
time at which the uneasiness is considered as being felt.

What was by Locke not sufficiently considered — and what by
the term expression in question taking as it is thirds is seems to be negatived, is —
that for as much a pleasure as well as pain may be efficacy at
and taking in the same pain from a thousand sources, thence has that from any
number of sources he may at the same time a given point be in the
receipt of present pleasures, which at this same point
of time he is looking forward to, and acting in pursuit of
future pleasure: reaping at the same time from the prospect
of that pleasure the pleasure of hope.

If Johnson was be to be believed that what every man
thinks of in the thoughts of every man occupies till dinner comes
the highest place in his thoughts is — his dinner. According
to the [improper] phraseology of Locke, this is as much as
to say, every man who is not at dinner is uneasy for want
of his dinner: is simply and absolutely, at every point of time
other than those which are occupied by the act of eating his dinner
is in a state of uneasiness. No this not even of Johnson himself
was this true. Beyond every thing else that Johnson loved was
his dinner: perhaps so. But what thinking thus amorously of his dinner
what

what should have hindered
him from having sitting
with his Tilsey in his house,
with a nosegay before under
him his nose, another Tilsey
at the
Harpsichord entertaining him
with a Song, and with the
wish of a furnish another
in his hand?

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Date_1	1814-08-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
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