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That a system of Morality adapted to the growing
intelligence of man should not have come down to us from
remote time is not to be wondered at – Even in the knowledge
of material thin objects antiquity had made small progress Insert *
In the knowledge of the functions of the human mind –
in intellectual physiology there was no progress at all. Ancient
learning is the warehouse of wit – the treasury of
resemblances. Modern learning – in experiment
& observation – is the mind whence materials for future progress
can are to be extracted. Then only can those combinations
be sought which constitute improvements – then only will
those discoveries be made out of which Theory establishes rears its
magnificent deductions. One after another the different
tranches of practical philosophy are drawn into the regions
of scientific arrangement. It is not Homer, nor Horace
nor Virgil, nor Tibullus – it, is not all the furniture of
a whole Christchurch Library, – that will help Ethical
science either to a nomenclature, – or an analysis –
Neither virtues nor vices can find their appropriate
places, – or exercise their true influences until the
test real is found which is to divide them into the elements
of pain & pleasure. The science of Morals, the exercise to the
the success of Chemistry will be is but the gathering
up of the elements sensations of suffering & enjoyment & arranging
them under those different heads of our virtue –
Every moral law is an integrant & harmonious part
of the great moral code, descending from & traceable
to the two master principles of all virtuous conduct
prudence & benevolence

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	344	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f19
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	j whatman 1818
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	5560
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