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Foundations of do.

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Being thus in so great a degree free from contradiction
& opposition more so than it
frequently happens to the Legislator to be when
armed with all his powers to be he proceeds
with the most perfect composure —
this self constituted legislator of the popular
or moral sanction — to lay down, or in a
word to enact, his laws. Among the words
of form employed on this occasion & for
this purpose, are the words obligation
aut ought and ought not.
Obligation on the one part ought & ought
not on the other may on this occasion
be considered as quasi-conjugates.
Obligation is either positive or negative.
When positive, it has for its quasi conjugate
ought, when negative ought not.
When it is his will & pleasure that you
shd. do the act in question he tells you
that you ought to do it you are under
an obligation to do it, & the obligation you
are under is a positive one — When it is
his will & pleasure you shall not
do it, he informs you that you ought
not to do it, and then the obligation you
are under is a negative one.

In this way it is that the fictitious
entity have for its visible sign the word
obligation has been formed: obligation, from
the latin word obligo, to bind: a twin to
use of which so much importance has been attached and
about which such a cloud of obscurity had been throwing that
an entire work, composing an 8vo Vol has been employd — &
do + in view in ye. endeavour to dispel it. Whoever wishes
to see it dispelled, must call in the principle of utility;
and from the system presided by that system borrow
the word motive. Where among the motives on this occasion
in question the man's conduct is exposed there
are one or more, the prevalence of which is regarded by ye. writer
with an eye of approbation
he speaks of
the man in question as
being under an obligation:
an obligatn. correspondent
to the sanction
to which ye. motive in
question belongs: if to
the political or legal sanction
a do. or do obligation.

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More free from
contradiction than
the real legislator, the
legislator of the popular
sanction, uses at leisure
& deals out the terms
ought & ought not
obligation, &c

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Obligation, positive
or negative —
ought — or ought not —

Proceed to
the explanation
of obligation

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When his pleasure,
you should do the act
he says you ought:
when his will is you
should not, he says
you ought not.

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Obligation from obligo
latin to bind: so ved
in clouds that an
octavo Vol. has been
written to displ them.
The principle of Utility
alone will clear it, with
the word motive as deduced
therefrom.

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Date_1	1818	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-8
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	213	Info in main headings field	deont'ly foundations of do
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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
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