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1821 Sept. 20
Deontology Private Prefat
Sacrifice — the less the better
Sacrifice need less to callgap/>
The tone strain taken and kept up by books of morality in
general is that of one continued call upon men for the
most painful sacrifices: and as every taken by itself,
and all consequences apart every such sacrifice is
mischievous, the light in which the represents it is in a mischievous light that morality
itself is in other way represented. Those who paint
it in this light little as it should seem are they
aware to how great an extent morality may be
carried into effect, without any thing painful sensation
whatsoever without any thing that would ordinarily
be presented to view by any such appellation as
that of sacrifice.
I In the production of this propensity two causes seem
to have concurred
1. A gloomy system of theology.
2. A selfish design On the part of the author a
scheme of selfishness at the bottom of all this perversity. +
+ Inf calls for that
in proportion to the sacrifice
he calls for for this
he is in the habit of
making.
One thing is certain — that the less the sacrifice made of
happiness the greater is the quantity remaining. Hence
the first object of research should be how much in what
cases by what means and in what quantity happiness may be obtained
gratis — and obtained without sacrifice: when these means this are
exhausted, then will come the inquiry how by the
greatest quantity of happiness may be obtained with the
least quantity of sacrifice
By this sort of examining the stock of happiness means
who in his ways, i in i pushenber and such was
by the effect of each line of conduct recommended: in a general
and round way, by giving to the whole nature of the art of
and service, that
light and pleasing
tone which properly
belongs to it.
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