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Musick by raising sounds agreable to the sense; and in
some sort by the faint shadowing of ideas which related
to that of sound, have some sort of dependance—
the remote from sense.

I have done, the imagination of the reader may compleat
the draught — Poetry, Painting in all their various
branches History, Grammar, Logic Metaphysics,
all the remaining arts or sciences which have or
ever will have a name, may in the like manner be —
connected, some by a shorter and coarser, others by a
longer and more fine drawn thread, with Happiness
their ground work, and with each other. [c]

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What then is the Province of Legislation? In-
what way does it lend its aid to Happiness? What
is its aspect to the other Arts.

[c] In this rapid and cursory vein of things, many particulars
for want of room must necessarily be omitted.
One might here observe for instance the besides the
Happiness which directly results from the putting
of the instruments of enjoyment to their respective uses
a Happiness that belongs to the community at large;
there is sort & that of a very transcendent nature, which is
peculiar to the inventers as such: another which comes neat to it
that of the first enjoyers — But to insist on this would lead us from our purpose.

3 INTROD. Encyclopaedical Sketch.

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LEGISLATION. Legislation contributes to Happiness by securing men —
in their possession, directing them in their use and disposing
them to the accumulation of the instruments of
enjoyment, fruits of all other arts, as well as of those which
lie so near at hand as not to stand in need of it.—
And this is done bringing men to concur in a conformity
to these purposes by means of specific allotments of pain
and pleasure (of pain to those who impede the above purposes
or of pleasure to those who forward them) to accrue
in virtue of the will of particular persons appropriated
or suffered for the purpose.

ETHICS [to others Social. Ethics as it respects a man's conduct to others contributes

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to happiness by teaching how to demean himself in the
use of the several instruments of enjoyment, as not to impede
but forward the enjoyments of those around him, in
the instance as well as of actions of his as Legislation
can reach, as of those it can not: And this it does, bringing
him to act in conformity to its purposes, by pointing
out the copious tho' unliquidated allottments of pain & pleasure
likely to accrue to him from the spontaneous dispositions
of men at large [d] according as he perceives this or that plan of conduct.

[d] I may be percieved that in the latter part of this account of
Ethics, I represent rather what it might be made of it than
what [it] has been hitherto. The employment of [the]—
greater] part of Moralists has taken another turn it has been

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