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But why is Reason, why inefficacious against Passion.

It cannot raise up images lively enough.

What is called Reason as applied to the government of the Passions is the
making the Scale turn in favour of a greater Pleasure in preference to a
less.

The will necessarily yields to the solicitation of the greatest apparent good.

H. Cause. And the causes why the influences of passion
over the influences of reason an

1. Want of apparent intensity in the distant pleasure which reason permits — want of
vivacity in the idea of it.

2. Want of apparent certainty — want of ready discernment to
trace out at the instant the train of effects and causes that promote or
impede the production of the distant pleasure.

Hence the use of the expedient which has run frequently recommended of playing off one
passion against another.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	312	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f161
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[top of britannia with shield motif]]]
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