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is absolutely essential to any thing like a right estimate of
conduct or character. And of showing the subserviency of opinion
to interest he demonstrated not only that the opinions publicly
advocated were subservient, but those privately & even clandestinely
formed — His list of the causes of misconduct especially in
public men is as profoundly philosophical, — as it is sagaciously
observant. Sinister interest — interest-begotten prejudice —
authority-begotten prejudice — & primæval or inbred weakness —
in these he saw, — & in these all men may see the sources
of human infirmity.

Helvetius thus applied the principle of utility
to practical use, — to the direction of human conduct in the
ordinary course of life. On that airy nothing — happiness— he
gave conferred a substantial existence by identifying it with pleasures
to which he gave "a local habitation & a name." He made
Utility pregnant with ideas of pleasure, — & thus it gave
birth to ideas of ideas in abundance — ideas of a positive &
intelligible character, — ideas so successfully elicited so attractively presented, so
successfully that they could not but be continually present
& familiar to the most inattentive, — unobservant &
scantily-instructed minds.

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Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	421	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f10
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[partial hall]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	5184
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