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6 How to measure Pain and Pleasure.

in the direct and proper measure: and being not only
the measure, but the producing instrument or
cause.

But of a pleasure or a pain produced by
any other cause, money though not the cause
may be the measure; Of other pleasures and pains, thought not the original, it may be the assumed measure. if not the direct one
yet an adjacent an exact & proper one, and the only one such
pain or pleasure will admitt of.

If of two pleasures a man knowing what they are would as less enjoy
the one as the other, they must be reputed
equal. There is a reason for supposing
them equal, and there is none for supposing
them unequal. If of two pains a man had
as less enjoy escape the one as the other, such two
pains must be reported equal. If of two sensations a pain
and a pleasure, a man had as less enjoy the
pleasure and suffer the pain, as not enjoy
the first one and not suffer the latter, these sensations such pleasure
and pain must be reported equal, or as
we may say in this case, equivalent.

If then between two pleasures, the one produced
by the possession of money, the other not, a man had as less
enjoy the one as the other, such pleasures are to
be reputed equal. But the pleasure produced by
the possession of money, is as the quantity of money

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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l v g
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