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The sacrifice of interests presents itself abstractedly as something
grand & virtuous because it is taken for granted that the pleasure one
man flings away must necessarily be gathered up by another. And
supposing no pleasure were lost in the transfer, & no pleasure
gained – it is clear that the whole sum of happiness would continue
just as it was notwithstanding a million shiftings from one
possessor to another. But in the commerce of happiness, as in that
of wealth, the prominent question is how to make circulation assist
production. Hence to make it is no more fit to call disinterestedness a virtue is no more in the in
moral economy – than to call expenditure a virtue merit in political
economy. Disinterestedness may exist among the rash & the
reckless, – but a man disinterested on reflection is happily
rarely seldom to be found. Show me the man who throws away
more of the elements of felicity than he creates, & I will show
you a fool & a prodigal. Show me the man who deprives
himself of more good than he communicates to another & I
will show you a man ignorant of the elementary arithmetic of
morality.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	245	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[shell motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	5461
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