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10 Sept 1814
Logic or Ethics Ch Object
11 Virtue when
That in respect of whatever tendency it has may have
to prevent pleasure it is of exactly the same value
and is intitled to 'exactly the same' regard as in it is respect
of whatsoever equally strong and efficient tendency it has to
provide pain in any shape to an amount corresponding
and equal in value to such pleasure
That, if the tendency effect of virtue were to prevent
more pleasure in any shape than it produced and at the same time to
promote more pain than it prevented, the pr of
it would be according to the persons
affected by it be either wickedness or folly: wickedness
in so far as others were so affected, folly in so far
as the man himself were so affected
That if the tendency effect of vice were to produce
more pleasure than it prevented
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