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All these will probably lead him to discover that he purchases
the pleasures of intoxication at too great a cost. He will see that
morality, which is virtue, – & happiness which is self-interest
counsel him to avoid excess. He has the same motive to
subdue his intemperate propensities that a man has who
in the pursuit of wealth can choose between gaining much &
gaining little. Deontology asks no ultimate sacrifice – her
lessons propose a bal balance of enjoyment to the man with
whom she reasons. She is pursuing in search of pleasure. She encourages
him in the pursuit search. She allows it to be a wise, – an honorable
& virtuous – but she entreats him not to err by an
erroneous arithmetic – she represents a probable futurity a probably adjacent futurity– a
probably adjacent futurity with its pleasures & pains. She
asks whether the pleasure enjoyment which is taken to day will not have
to be repaid to-morrow or the day after with usurious & intolerable interest.
She implores that the same prudent calculation which every
wise man applies to his daily concerns may be brought into applied to
the most important of all concerns, – those of felicity & misery.
Deontology professes no scorn for that very selfishness to which
vice itself appeals as. She surrenders every point which cannot
be proved to be beneficial to the individual. She consents even to
set aside the code of the Lawgiver, – & the Dogmas of the Divine.
She takes for granted that these cannot be unfriendly to
her influences – that neither legislation nor Religion are hostile
to morality, – & she insists that morality shall not be opposed
to happiness. Make out to her a case against human felicity
& she is smitten with silence & with helplessness. She acknowledges
that even the drunkard is proposing to himself a proper end,
but she is able to show him that his end will not be accomplished

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	238	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f92
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	hall
Marginals		Paper Producer	louis francois joseph le dieu
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5454
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