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the most efficient sources of delight. They form part of the
very pleasures which they magnify & purify, & which without them
lose the best part of their value & shrink into almost nothing.

Strange that a result so obvious should have escaped
the penetration of the whole head of moralists. Strange that the
simple uses of such valuable instruments should have been so mistaken &
so distorted. The force that was intended to be applied to the spring of action
solely to increase & strengthen its activity has been thus
represented as meant to break that spring – and thus the means which
providence has put into men's power for the creation of happiness
have been perverted to its destruction. Such moralists indeed would
be aptly commented on by the surgeon who in order to a cure a
pimple should amputate a limb.

As it has been said on the shape of a
paradoxical truth that Religion is the heigth of Self Love, – so
with equal propriety may it be asserted that Modesty is the
heigth of voluptuousness. So futile is the distinction, – so
absurd the variance, – so mischievous the ruptures which have
been made between interest & duty, – between what is
virtuous & what is pleasurable.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	385	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f61 / f62
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i i smith & son 1831 [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	maria edgeworth
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1831
Notes public		ID Number	5601
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