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16 Sept. 1814

Logic or Ethics

Ch. Causes of Immorality

3

§.3. Religion misapplied

To take, on this occasion, a distinction between the attributes
of God, and the attributes ot man, and in particular to say that
God's benevolence, though different from mans God's benevolence,
is not the less benevolence is mere mockery. Except Unless in
its application to humankind on the one hand & to human conduct, the other to human
feelings, whence did the word benevolence acquire its
meaning? The Be it what it may an effect is still
the same — it is still itself whatsoever be its author or its
cause. If to affect little better he who is at the
pains of asserting this is trifling
If he who asserts this is a
trifler what shall is say of him who denies it?

To ascribe to God under the name of benevolence
to ascribe to God's own being that which if ascribed to man another being would not be benevolence is
if on the part of every one, who is not blind whom terror or prejudice has not blinded to the absurdity impropriety
to men out of fraud: under the name of
a fish it is to sell a serpent. By being called a fish tomtit
would an adder avantule be made harmless?

Any other True of any one attribute this can not be
otherwise than true of any other. Any otherwise than as
man can be is just, how can any other being be just? and so
of powerfulness and knowledge and veracity. From what but from the
observation of the effect of human conduct on human feelings
can the idea of justice or the idea, for the designation of which
the word justice, and then others which in different languages
correspond to it, have been employed among men — made use of — employed among human beings — have
been derived?




Identifier: | JB/014/128/001
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Date_1

1814-09-16

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

014

Main Headings

deontology

Folio number

128

Info in main headings field

logic or ethics

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e3

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] mj&l 1811]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

colonel aaron burr

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1811

Notes public

ID Number

4891

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