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Virtue has not only to struggle with individual inclination – it has
sometimes to struggle against the general inclination of the human species – and
it is when it triumphs over both that it exists in its highest degree of perfection.

In proportion as a man has acquired a command over his desires, resistance
to their impulse becomes less and less difficult – till at length in some constitutions
all difficulty vanishes. In early life for example a man may have acquired
a taste for wine, or for a particular species of food. Finding it disagree with
his constitution little by little the uneasinesses attendant on the gratification
of his appetite become so frequent, – so constantly present to his recollection that
the anticipation of the future certain pain gains strength enough to overpower
the impression of the present pleasure. The idea of the greater distant pain suffering
has extinguished that of the lesser present pleasure contemporaneous enjoyment. And it is thus that by
the power of association things which had been originally objects of desire
become objects of aversion, – & on the other hand things which had been
originally objects of aversion, such as medicines for instance, become objects
of desire. In this the case above referred to the pleasure not being in
possession could not of course be sacrificed – it was non existent – nor was
there self-denial in the case for as the desire

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	232	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f85
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5448
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