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9 Sept 1814 2

Logic or Ethics Ch Summum bonum

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Is there a that implies liken this to the
preceding? §

In almost every line walk of discipline, error is a sort of antechamber labyrinth
vestibule approach through which man men are stands condemned to grope keep groping to pass in make his way to click his heels
his way to before he can arrive truth

While Xenophon was writing History, and Euclid
teaching Geometry, a set of men Socrates and Plato were talking nonsense, on pretence
of teaching morality and wisdom: This wisdom consist This morality
of theirs consisted in words: this wisdom of theirs in so far as it was any thing but nonsense had a meaning, consisted in
denying the existence of this and that and t'other thing matters made
known to every body by experience in asserting the existence
of a variety of matters the contrary non-existence of which was made known
to every body by experience. Exactly in proportion
as they and their notions thus differed from the bulk of general mass of mankind, exactly in
that same proportion were they inferior to it below the level of it

[Of] the people who took no pleasure in the talking of
any such nonsense — [of the people who were content with
conc reaping pleasures under the guidance of common sense]
and who on that account were considered as ignorant,
and as composing the vulgar herd, were beheld beholden by them
enjoying each of them throughout the compass of their lives a portion of well-being more or less
considerable of well-being — most of them, every now and
then a portion of happiness. Well-being for their ordinary
fare, happiness, now and then a slight taste of it, for as if at a feast:
Well Good enough then for the ignorant vulgar: not so for these
horrid sages: men who by whatsoever name they called
themselves or will were called — wisest of men ()
wise men () or lovers of wisdom () held
their heads equally high, carrying on with equal the same industry rapidity
and pretension the manufactory of nonsense.

Identifier: | JB/014/058/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1814-09-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	058	Info in main headings field	logic or ethics
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::"is there a sheet missing between this & the preceding?" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	4821
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