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11 Sept. 1814 22

Logic or Ethics Ch Summum bonum

2 § III Theoretics

Thus far this our compendialist Mean time All this while
How conclusive so ever that evidence of his
may appear to him, a still nearer proof of our being born to act is that
which he himself was giving, all the while he was
thus scribbling.

[+] if there be any truth
in the adage scribere
est agero

In good truth to all this, in good truth there is but are but
two objections, one of them that it means nothing, the other
one objection viz. that it is nothing to the purpose

For one man one of these Theoretics who are
they are suppose him wrapt up in contemplation
thinking about any thing else or nothing else but fancying
himself happy and so happy as to be in possession
of the summum bonum: what is it he will
believe: his own senses feelings which tell him that he has
got the summum bonum, or this Fabric of our
nature which if the compendialist is to be believed
is telling him that he has not got it?

Omitt?
To plain sense it should seem that whatever
it is that a man does, that it is that he was born to
do, or for how else comes he to do it. happens it that he does it? These good people
by the supposition are occupied contrive to occupy themselves some how or other
occupied in contemplation: they are therefore as clearly
born to contemplate as they or any body can be to act,
and if so what becomes of the compendialist
with and this his argument?

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