JB/015/179/001

Click Here To Edit

40

Purity

The word purity it is proper to add here is employed in this work solely in the mathematical or
arithmetical sense. This is necessary to be stated because rhetoric very
frequently attaches a meaning to the word, – as it does to many others – which
can only engender confused – or mischievous ideas.

A pleasure is considered pure, in the degree in which it is unaccompanied
by counterbalancing pains – a pain is pure, in the proportion in which it
is unaccompanied by counterbalancing pleasures.

In the amount of well-being, purity & impurity, are what
profit & loss are in the commercial balance. Purity is profit – impurity loss.
A pleasure preponderantly impure corresponds to the case of a money account
when the net proceeds balance is less on the side of loss. A pain preponderantly
impure corresponds to an account, when the balance is on the side of profit. In medical practice, – in domestic rule – in political government, when not vindictive for its
and tyrannic purpose of benefit good good pain is inflicted produced, it is produced
with the design & endeavour that it shall be as impure as possible.

The original association idea of purity is the absence of every
other substance from the substance to which the attribute is meant to apply.
Whatever is different, or foreign brings with it impurity. Water for instance
employed for drink, or in the preparation of food, – is liable to be combined
with a variety of substances, many of which would render it less fit, – & some
more fit for these purposes. Its purity will then be in proportion to their absence.
Flour would be rendered impure by a mixture of coal dust – & coals would
lose their purity by being mingled with flour or hair-powder. The
quality of unwholesomeness or offensiveness, whether to the senses or the
imagination, adds in to the intensity which is ascribed to the impurity.

Identifier: | JB/015/179/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	179	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	purity
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f45
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] mj&l 1811]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	colonel aaron burr
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1811
Notes public		ID Number	5395
Box Contents