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In bringing all conduct into the fields regions of
pleasures & pains, – inquiry will be much facilitated by tracing
actions up to their sources, – and distinguishing the relations
which exist between the impulses which gave those actions birth.
Emotions, – affections, – passions & humors – singly & mingled
are each of them the origin of much of action & each presents
its elements of enjoyment & suffering. An act is said to
be the result effect of an emotion when the motive by which it is
produced is a pleasure or pain of a transient character.
When a permanent or habitual state of mind – as for
example where sympathy or antipathy towards an individual
has created a continuous disposition to gratify or annoy –
the motive will be the effect result of an affection. Where
the emotion becomes vehement – whether allied with an
habitual affection or not – its consequences are called the
effect of passion. Humor is somewhat more of a capricious
character – & implies a subject of the emotions or passion to
a predetermination of the understanding. "It was my humor –
I controlled my act actions by the volition of the moment –
I made the motive at my own good pleasure.

But among the sources of misjudgment &
among the causes of despotism, the busy search after mens
motives is among the most fruitful. Claims to purity of motive
for ourselves or others – accusations against their impurity
of motive are dragged amon about in eternal processions – to excuse –
to justify – to laud – to reprove – to reprobate – to condemn.
The whole field of actions is con covered with pretensions
on this score – indefatigably put forward – constantly
appealed to – and seldom grounded on any thing better
than the usurpation of the motive-denouncer. Why
is judgement so baneful to the general well being, so
constantly persistedly persisted in? In the first place it is
flattering to the self-regarding affections – it enables the
speaker or the writer to set up his own standard of
right & wrong. It saves him from the laborious necessity
of tracing the consequences of actions – it takes enables
him to take the judgmen opinions of others into a
region where the region of another man's mind – where

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Folio number	357	Info in main headings field
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