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8) Of the Principles of human action

Sport. pain: and this pleasure is highten'd by the pleasure
of curiosity coming in aid of it. The same ruffian
if it had not been for the enterprize [of depredation
he was engaged in] in question would not have thought
perhaps of exercising on those or any other persons any such
barbarities.


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NOTE.

I know by experience the power existence of such a propensity
as I am speaking of: I know also how
easily it may be subdued in children by the force of the moral
sanction, when those whose business it is will take
the trouble to apply it. I was about 4 or 5
years old when one evening I happen'd to be amusing took it into my head
to amuse myself with putting ear-wigs in the candle. I
had no malice to the ear-wigs poor insects: for my disgust at
them if I had conceived any would have led me
rather to have avoided them than to have handled them
in that matter. But the writhings of their bodies, added
to the little explosions made by the moisture
of their juices contained in them composed a scene which amused
my curiosity. A servant who had the charge
of me, asked me what I thought the ear-wigs
must suffer, and what I could have to say [for
myself if any one that was stronger than I should]
were she to serve me in the same manner. I was struck
with remorse. I looked at [back upon] the deed with
horror: and now from that time I have been nearly
as attentive to the feelings of the brute as of the
human
part of the creation as of the human.


NOTE

It seems but too probable that in most men's minds
the a great part of the pleasure of hunting is referable to
this principle. It must be acknowledged however
that the pleasure of hunting is a very complex pleasure.
in the composition of which many distinguishable pleasures
are united, besides this.



Identifier: | JB/027/026/004
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027

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comment on the commentaries

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026

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of the principles of human action

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004

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text sheet

Number of Pages

2

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recto

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b5 / f6

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jeremy bentham

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[[watermarks::propatria [britannia motif]]]

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jeremy bentham

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9116

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