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Next I put of Hartley
and examples for at an end,
and interest

Helvetius F of light occasional
rather than regular
by of

In all these Essays (for there are several of them "utility though
all alas spoken of as the employed in giving name to a 'principle' is spoken
of in the of as the quality of being conducive to an end
whatsoever to that end, and is a quality conducive to no other end than happiness.

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Epoch 4 Ao 1758 Helvetius,
Esprit. Light thrown on
the field by that book

IVV. Epoch the fourth fifth — epoch in f f by X Year 1750: date of the first publication of the work of Helvetius, intituled
the l'Esprit: a word to which, unhappily no clear idea stands attached, and to of
which no equivalent is to be found in the English language. Great Important
is the sense for which morals and legislation stand indebted to this
work: but to give is a few in any small number of or any totally , and careful of the nature conception of that
service is scarcely possible. The light it spreads The diff below, on the field of the this
branch of art and science, is to that which steady light which would be diffused over
it by a regular institute or say is like that b didactic treatise, like when what the meridian sun sheds over a place —
when bursting forth
one moment from behind
a cloud it hides itself
the next moment behind
another, is to that
occasional f is store of legislation to a successive flocks of
comparatively pale but regular and steady system of illumination afforded to a
street by a two constantly lighted rows of lamps.

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J. B. much indebted to
that work

To this work Mr Bentham he often be heard to say to
he stands indebted for no small part of the arduous and arduous and of such
he desires to render his labours useful to numbers upon the largest scale,
and for the consequences he found to persons a thing, and for the light
and belief that they would not be altogether fruitless

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In that work no nomenclature
or classification of pains and
pleasures

In that work mention of different sorts of pleasures
does indeed occur: but in the marshaling of them is any method
observed, nor in the providing and corresponding correspondent denominations of the
is so much as the idea started of the any such task as that of making
in any sort and order as that of would ,
out a list of them.

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The most instructive
of the lights thrown by
it is that which presents
to view the influence
of interest on opinions

Of the light just mentioned in cleared by him from that work
one One of the most instructive of those lights
he found to be that felt that to be of which presents to view the
influence exerted by interest on opinions: & those
not only opinions declared but opinions actually
entertained; & from these lights it is that he deduced
those ulterior ones by which he was enabled
to make out the list he has so often employed
of the four psychological causes of misconduct in men more particularly [+]
[+] public men,
that is to say, sinister
interest; interest-begotten
prejudice, authority-begotten
prejudice, & primæval or
say inbred weakness.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	22-25
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	406	Info in main headings field	article
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	john flowerdew colls	Paper Produced in Year
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