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Deontology 1818 169

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part perhaps by far the greater part
of his readers it will not experience contradiction
in any particular at any future
point of time. Of this security of
contradiction a proportional degree of
presumption is a natural not to say a
necessary consequence. As to reasons
to give to the doctrines and precepts he
lays down all along the support of
reasons wd. be productive of few
restraints obligations from bothe of which he
finds it much to his advantage viz — in respect
of power & ease & advantage to be free.
In respect of power because if to the
attempt of to exerciseng it the giving of
reasons were necessary the consequence
is that were no reasons could be found
no such attempt could be made: in respect
of ease, because to give expression to
a simple desire, or act of the will in relation
to any subject requires much less
labor than the giving expression not onl
to that alone but also to whatever considerations
happened to have been employed in givg.
birth to that desire, with the addition of
all considerations as in the character of reasons
present themselves as being habitually necessary
or conducive to the purpose of securing
in the minds of his readers a sentiment of approbation
towards such his doctrines & precepts.
(Proceed to state that in the character of
legislator of the law of the moral sanction a
man proceeds as do the legislators of the law
of the legal sanction)

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Hence more or less
of presumption engendered
in the writer

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And from love of
ease & want of power
to give reasons, he
is apt to send forth
his unadorned will
on the subject he
treats of.

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Date_1	1818	Marginal Summary Numbering	3-4
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	212	Info in main headings field	deontology foundation of
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