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1819 May 6.

Deontology private II Practical
Prudence purely self-regarding.

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Ch: 1 Self regarding

§1—. Of the command which the mind has over the thoughts.

Instructions for the management of the thoughts suppose
the existence of this sort of command to a certain degree
in general it supposes the absence of any considerable strong
excitement from other causes — case of the malefactor
who possessed this command in such a degree as to empower
him to indure the most excruciating torments —
when an idea or set of ideas already in possession of the
mind the mind can in a direct way keep them there
It can not however in any such way keep an idea out
of the mind — it may keep itself full but it can
not keep itself empty — on getting rid of an idea it has
no continually effectual means but by turning aside from one idea
and calling in and attaching itself to some other — when
the ideas thus dealt with are arguments in the opposite
sides of a controverted question the process thus
carried on is the self deceptive process — the mind fixes
its attention upon the arguments on one side keeping
it carefully turned aside from all the arguments on the
other side — In this way there is no proposition so absurd
but a man may in some sort keep himself tolerably
persuaded of the truth of it— this by fear and hope, but
particularly by fear as being the stronger passion that
the command thus exercised over the mind is obtained

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Date_1	1819-05-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	238	Info in main headings field	deontology private
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	5001
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