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is wasted.

If by erroneous reasoning a another man is debarred of pleasure, there is no
sufficient reason for visiting the erroneous reasoner with punishment, – for
erroneous reasoning is best met & most successfully extinguished by sound
reasoning. It is not by punishment or the fear of punishment that
its erroneousness can be proved and exposed. In proportion to the erroneousness
of an opinion will be the demand for punishment in its support, – & there
can be no more presumptively conclusive evidence of the erroneousness of
an opinion than that it should employ, or seek to employ punishment
as its auxiliary.

He who for the purpose of obtaining wealth, reputation, or power for himself
seeks to debar others from those acts which leave a preponderance of enjoyment
to them, resembles the man who in an upper story should with one hand
be piling guineas & with the other be emptying flinging nuisances on the heads of passengers below.
And he who on the subject of morals deals out at random without any specific reasons, his "ought" and
his "ought not" may be properly compared to the careless housemaid who
empties her receiving-pail from a chamber window indifferent to all who
may chance to be passing going by.

The value of pains & pleasures must be estimated by their intensity,
duration, certainty, proximity & extent. Their intensity of duration, proximity & certainty respect individuals, – their
extent the number of persons under their influence. The greater amount
of any of these qualities may counterbalance the lesser amount of any
other.

A pleasure or a pain may be fruitful, – or barren – to pleasure may
be fruitful in pleasures, – or fruitful in pains – or fruitful in both – & a
pain on the contrary, may be fruitful in pleasures – or pains, – or
both. It is the province of Deontology to weigh them, – & to draw the rule of conduct fromIt is the province of Deontology to weigh them and to draw the rule of conduct from the result the result.

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Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	170	Info in main headings field
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Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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