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Temperance

Temperance has for its object the pleasures of sense. Though commonly used to express
with reference to abstinence from the enjoyments of one or two of the senses there seems no sufficient reason
for the such a limitation to the term. Wherever there is abstinence The question
of virtue must be decided by the influence of the enjoyments of sense
on ourselves and others.

Intemperance – when mischievous to a man ithimself – is a
breach of prudence – when mischievous to others it is a breach of
benevolence. but it is only Preponderant enjoyment, – or preponderant
suffering are is the only standard by which the moral merits of fruition
can be estimated. Abstinence which leaves no balance of
pleasure partakes not of the character of virtue – enjoyment which
leaves no balance of pain cannot justly be stigmatised with the reproach
of vice.

There exists in the world a great unwillingness to allow a
man to be the curator of his own pleasures – a there is a vehement disposition to decide
on what in the breast of another man may be allowed to be a pleasure ,
and what not. The words impropriety, & unlawfulness and such like
are flung at particular actions – in order to excite odium – as if they
were evidence of depravity – they being in fact only a part & portion
of that phraseology, – by which a man seeks to shelter his own
dogmatism from the analysis which the doctrines of utility would apply
to it.

Identifier: | JB/015/269/001 "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	269	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	temperance
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f119
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1827
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1827
Notes public		ID Number	5485
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