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C Paederasty

Religion

a capital offence. Under the above restriction however,
it has been tolerated. It has been tolerated, but not
as the pleasure is appeared great, with great reluctance,
and at any rate not encouraged: it has been
permitted not as a good but as a lesser evil. It
had indeed been discouraged, and great rewards offer'd
in a future life, for those who will forego it in the
present.

It may be asked indeed if pleasure is not a good
what is life good for, and what is the purpose of preserving
it. But the most obvious and immediate
consequences argument of a proposition may become invisible when screened a screen
has been set before by the prejudices of by false philosophy or the tenet of false religion.

Hatred of pleasure
Nero, I think it was, or some other of the Roman
Tyrants, who is said to have offer'd a reward to any one
who should discover a new pleasure. That is in fact
no more than what is done by those who offer rewards
for new poems, for new mechanical contrivances;
for improvements in agriculture and in
the arts; which are all but so many instruments means
of producing new pleasures, or which comes to the
same thing of producing a greater abundance quantity of
the old ones. The object however that in these cases are is advertised
of for is not advertised for under the name of
pleasure: so that the ears of these moralists are not
offended with that detested sound. For In to the case
abovementioned, from the character of the person who offer'd
the reward it is natural enough to presume that
the sort of pleasure he had in view in offering it was sensual and

Identifier: | JB/072/202/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	202	Info in main headings field	paederasty
Image	002	Titles	religion
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f45 / f46 / f47 / f48
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::w [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23819
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