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It must be confessed This separation of the unterrific from other
Homicides, is a departure from naturality:
one of the properties which we have enumerated among
the requisites in a scheme/method of classification
as believing to be
attached to as being in general
among requisites
The most obvious conspicuous characteristic of those which
I have inserted in this class, as will being is that which
is common to them with those which I inserted
have ranged under
the first in the other, viz: the circumstance of death.
It is the most conspicuous, because it is the
only characteristic of either group, that offers strikes
impresses directly
upon itself immediately/directly to these faculties, which are common to alike exercised
by all men, +, the senses. For these characteristics
of each whereby they differ, are to speak the truth so far from
being conspicuous, that is i.e. apprehended
readily, that to by many or perhaps most men
they have not been apprehended at all.
+ Note. I am speaking now of the spectators,
those who contemplate the transaction in act or in idea: not
the patients, those who are the objects of it.
Any inducement to this departure is no
other than the grand & as it appeared to me superior purpose of making
the arrangement of the articles subservient
to & indicative + + or of I might so
say remeniscential
of of the principles [for of their æstimating
them] whereby they are to be æstimated.
A Classification is natural when it places
together those subjects which superficial
observants would expect to find together.
which man upon
a transitory survey superficial observers — those who know no more
of a subject than is suggested to them by
obvious properties and most apparently
interesting — as different sorts of utility in place
The actuality of the arrangement depends
upon the identity or at least similarity
of the natural appearance, or physical
phasis, as it might be called, of these articles
which are cast under the same division || || general or hyper-general
denomination
But this physical phasis is of several offences utterly different from || || unconformable to
the moral or (call it which you please), the
political) character; which character in every instance it is
the great one grand end of the science, according to
such rules of æstimation as shall; be found |||
||| subservient to the
end paramount,
the maxim[um]ential
greatest possible accumulation
[augmentation of]
of happiness. legitimate, to investigate.
I know not however, whether the arrangement as
far as concerns these articles is not even calculated
impress itself the more forcibly upon the attention
establish ground itself & to fasten itself the deeper into the memory
from the very circumstances of its' very non-actuality, or contrast
to that method of arrangement, which is the
natural one.
For In the 3d Class, the consideration of pain
when it where it occurs is merged in that
of danger.
Pain and danger — not two sorts of mischief,
but the same mischief viewed under the two
different faces of actuality and contingence
as happening, and as about to happen.
[as alighting on]
any object on which
it could alight Seeing one act, without seeing any object not seeing the mischief of it, since
that was affected by it they saw not any object of it such mischief at the same time
that without being very well able to tell
why, they were disposed to think it mischievous,
they called it a Crime against
the State, and because seeing no pain they could assign,
they could assign, they were apt to suppose
none to be produced: and that it
was not owing to it's producing pain,
but to an unknown undefined and unintelligible
something called mischief, (for mischief
not meaning neither pain nor pleasure, nor
the chance of either of them, is flatly unintelligible)
that an act became meet for punishment.
In this distress, metaphor as usual came
to their aid (for when men cannot obtain
the ideas themselves that are wanted, they
will pay themselves with others they suppose they imagine
like them)
with others that very supposedness
like those to make
you think you have
The State is any thing to .....
it is an animal, and offences give
a wound to it: it is a Pond, and an
offence is what disturbs it. It is a great
animal having a number of little animals
belonging to it. Peace, Religion, Government
& so forth #
# any thing to avoid
saying those
three short irksome
words, I know not.
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