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6 Sept. 1814 6 7

Logic or Ethics Ch. Object

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§. Ought it not?

Thus it is that, by all these motions, in by which
man's actions are most in use to find their causes — the
moralist stands engaged to him, and by constantly leaning
constantly to err, on the side of severity. From laxity he has
more or less every thing to fear — nothing to hope: from severity he has
every thing to hope expect, nothing to fear. Thus it is that without
reason and almost without fear — thought — taking these for his instruments
'cravan words ought and ought not for his instruments
he impos goes on laying on commands and prohibitions
imposing on mankind in both shapes those fictitious and metaphisical but
imposing burthens and chains in every shape upon mankind.
not the less galling heavy and afflicting chains and burthens

By the exercise of tyranny in this shape thus
it is that profit in so many agreeable and profitable useful shapes
profit is to be made. In no other Scarce in any way can is any thing
like equal profit to be made at so small an expence
of any thing like equal profit, is the expence in the shape way
of thought so inconsiderable. In comparing with Applied to the description
of the sort course line of conduct which a man proposes
to himself to recommend, the word ought, is in applied to
company with the description of the opposite line of conduct
the words ought not, are quite sufficient, are altogether
sufficient for the purpose. Observation, enquiry,
reflection — all these operations these and all other mental
operations are altogether as superfluous as they are laborious:
Whatsoever the try a man's direct purpose for argument
a man he has no need of any other.

Exercising themselves in this field, folly and arrogance
the most egregious blindest folly and the most assuming arrogance
find themselves altogether at their ease. By these physicians of souls Pleasures are ordered
off the table — pains ordered on instead of them, with as much ease
as
the by the word of the
miserable physician body
the meat even ordered
off the table of the famished
lunatic.

Identifier: | JB/014/153/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1814-09-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	153	Info in main headings field	logic or ethics
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d7 / e6
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	4916
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