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Though the imaginative or mental powers depend on & are reducible
into bodily pleasure, the field they expatiate in is far more
extensive than any other, – & the expanse opened to the contemplation more wide & varied and sublime
varied & . As objects appear larger by night – as obscurity magnifies
every thing, so imagination of the vague outstrips the calculation of the
real. When Milton describes the descent of Satan who
" To this hour
Had still been falling – the idea of the fall is far more
great than if there had been a positive estimate of tens of thousands of
miles from the moment of his overthrow to the present hour. A definite
expression by numbers would have made a far less forcible impression on
the imagination Out of this disposition to magnify what is unknown
grows a great part of the charm of voyages of discovery. In an
anticipated certainty there can be none of the pleasure of surprise &
hence, the value of the mental pleasures is not of a nature opposite to & distinct
from the bodily ones but is grounded on their giving an indistinct
& therefore magnified view of the expected enjoyment of the latter. But
to both. Utility must be applied for their fit estimate. It is the
absence or presence of utility that makes the sole difference between
the arrangement of the pin on a pincushion by a child, or the
locating the stars on a celestial globe by an astronomer philosopher.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	395	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f73
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[top of motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	5611
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