JB/036/272/001

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1823 May 1
Constitut. Code

In the The idea conveyed designated by the word purity is under
a negative positive form a negative idea: the opposite and correspondent
idea designated by the word impurity is a positive
idea in a negative form. By an impure object
is designated an object to which are somehow or other
attached other objects which it is desirable should not be
attached to it. In the account economy excretions of
various kinds are continually making their way to the
surface excretions which all agreeing in this, that they
are in various degrees sooner or later they are offensive or are about
to become offensive to some. In relation to this which that
which accordingly is desirable is – that with as much
speed as conveniently may be they should be removed.
Offensiveness is relative: the degree of it depending not
merely as the condition of the source of the offence inconvenience, but also in that of him
by whom by whom it is experienced. The greater more
abundant his opulence, the more abundantly his sensitive
ness is a mans imagination apt to be to this species of impurity
the greater the quantity of time and expence he is apt content to expend
in ridding himself of it and thus securing himself
from the possibility of becoming an object of disgust
to those others whose condition in life are agrees with his
to those who whom by similarity of feelings and means are have
rendered his associates. For the Proportioned to the
compleatness and constancy of this clearance is the
quantity of time requisite together with expence in
various a variety other shapes. By those by whom everything
is produced, the instruments of this clearance included,
small in comparison is the quantity of those requisites
that can be afforded: never sufficient for the satisfaction of
those their superiors on the scale of fortune: to those their superiors they
and every thing object associated
with them are accordingly
standing objects of coercion
and disgust and aversion.

Identifier: | JB/036/272/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1823-05-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	272	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	11196
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