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By things [actions] that are indifferent, I suppose he means
actions that are indifferent to happiness: if not,
I have no more to say to him, he may mean
any thing for aught I know. ☞ Actions
that are indifferent to happiness, are actions that
are indifferent to pains and pleasures, are actions that
are indifferent to pains and pleasures, are actions
that produce cause neither pain or pleasure: now
these if any such there be, are a sort of actions
men, I conceive, are not very apt to do: for
my notion of man is, that successfully or unsuccessfully
he aims at happiness, and so can
continue to aim as long as he continues to be
man, in every thing he does. But of men
here were so apt to does do them, it is more than I can conceive what business the or
what inducement the any legislation can have to meddle with them.

Perhaps our Author may be despaired to say, or
somebody to say for him, that by actions and indifferent
he means acts indifferent to the pairs
and pleasures of persons their than the agent himself:
that us, he him whose acts they are. In this
case I am still as much at a loss as ever to

☞ As to the ["in themselves"]
that any body may make of what they
can.
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