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1821. March 31

a 'distinction must here be observed between the cases in
which the bodily organ — the organ of senses — is itself the seat of
annoyances suffered & the cases in which it is but an inlet to the
impression made on some other part of the body or on the mind.

Thus for example the organs of sight & hearing are each
of them exposed to particular modes of annoyance of which they
are respectively the seats. But taken together they are the inlets
to an infinity of annoyances as well as of enjoyments, the
seat of which is not in the respective organs but in the mind: in
a word, of the annoyances & enjoyments, capable of being afforded
by the means of discourse.

The only cases in which it is worth while for the present
purpose & on the present occasion to bring a mode of annoyance
to view, are those in which it is in a man's power to avoid
giving the annoyance without taking himself out of the presence
of those who are opposed to it. There are some persons
in whose eyesto whom the sight of a person whose eyes are the seat
of a certain morbid affection is sufficient to produce a similar
affection: no forbearance except the forbearance to introduce
himself into the presence of the person labouring under
this morbid susceptibility, being sufficient to prevent the annoyance,
the case belongs not to this head. On terms of less inconvenience
than that of their avoiding each other's presence
the annoyance may be avoided by an easy forbearance on
the part of the person labouring under the morbid susceptibility:
viz by his avoiding to turn his eyes towards those
eyes by the morbid state of which, the morbid sensibility is
affected & the annoyance produced.

Identifier: | JB/015/529/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Date_1	1821-03-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	529	Info in main headings field	deontology private
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / f214
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	sir john bowring	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5745
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