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16 Sept. 1814
Logic or Ethics Ch. Causes of Immorality
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§.3. Religion misapplied
If this be not false, that is disaster.
Yes, if in those books the happiness of the present life were
all along the declared object — if for guiding main guidance in pursuit of it
Yes, if in those books the principle of utility as
so often explained, were all along appealed to, and the application
of it to the details of human life made all along
with that correctness and compleatness that the nature of
the case admitts of.
But if in those books the happiness of the present
life is not all along the declared object — in those books
the principle of utility, as above, is not any where appealed
to, {much still less is} nor even of such principles
and rules as are there laid down is the application
made all along with that correctness and compleatness
which the nature of the case admitts of.
1. In the language therein ascribed to Jesus and his followers
the happiness the utmost attainable happiness of the present life is, in comparison of the
happiness and or misery about to be experienced in a future
life — is thus comparatively taken or even absolutely, over and
over again spoken of as if it were being of no value.
2. The utmost happiness attainable in the present life being represented
as of no value, {strange indeed would it have been
and inconsistent with reference to this all such representations, inconsistent,
if} that principle by which the influence of an act
on the happiness i.e. the pleasures as well as the pains capable
of being experienced in the present life is represented pointed to as the
standard of its propriety and impropriety, were every in those same writings on
any occasion referred to as in the character of any such character as that of the all-governing principle.
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