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1823 May 1
Constitut. Code
Here then are two distinct and opposite classes: the
one composed of those who by whom the disagreable sensation
called disgust is constantly experienced: the other,
composed of those who are the objects of it – those from
whom it is experienced. But those from whom it is experienced
are impure, incontestably impure: the quality
on account of which they are the object of the disgust is
impurity: while the opposite agreable quality is
among the incontestable attributes of those by whom they
are contemplated in this unpleasant point of view.
By an unfortunate yet scarcely cretable association
this those same word words impurity and its conjugate
have been come to be employed in the designation of
qualities which are generally disagreable on a moral
account: qualities the seat of which is not in the body
not in the bodily sense but only in the mind: qualities
on some account or other all of them disagreable
to maintain in general and in particular to the those higher
class in question; qualities disagreable to a considerable
extent on account thereon of real their being
really productive of mischief in determinable form any and
quantity: with which have hitherto been but too generally
mixt and confounded others from which no mischief suffering
at all, or no preponderant evil mischief over and above preponderant over the
enjoyment in the general course of things, emanates. Amongst those mischievous
and affliction-producing qualities are those of
rapacity and oppressiveness. These qualities are in an
eminent degree the characteristic qualities of those whose
condition is in the most obvious and manifest sense of
the word, a condition of purity: for in them the disposition
has for its accompaniment the correspondent power: But
for
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