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1. Happiness and Unhappiness. 1
Happiness, as well as Unhappiness, is the sum or aggregate
of a number of Sensations.

2 Sensations 2
Sensations are either painful or pleasureable: they are
either pains or Pleasures.

3 Happiness. 3
Happiness is the aggregate of a Number of Pleasures.

4 Pleasures. 45
Pleasures are either Pleasures of the Body or pleasures
of the Mind. [c] v. Inserenda p. 2.

5 Instruments of Pleasures 54
Instruments of pleasure is an appellation that may
be given to any object that serves to the production of a
pleasure.

6 Pleasures of Fruition. or Enjoyment 6
Pleasures of the Body may in contradistinction to an-other sort
of pleasures we shall have reason to speak of presently
may be termed Pleasures of Enjoyment or Fruition.

7 Instruments of Fruition or Enjoyment 7
Instruments of enjoyment is an appellation that may
be given to such material Objects as serve to the production
of a pleasure of Enjoyment.

8 Seat or Internal passive <add>percipient</add> Instrument. Passive or percipient 8 6
The bodily organ, in which a pleasure of enjoyment is excited,
may be termed the Seat or internal passive <add>percipient</add> instrument of
enjoyment.

9- Active External Afficient Instrument. 9 7
The Object by which a pleasure of enjoyment is excited:
may be termed the external <add>active afficient</add> instrument of enjoyment.

NOTES. very much mistaken. Cicero, the Paederast Cicero, See Plin. Epist. I. VII. 4. and Sallast's Oration against that with Cicero's works. and the Paederast Philosophers
he compiled from, with all their eagerness after the summum
bonum, as their term scorned to meddle with any thing that bore the name of Pleasure.</p>

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1.
Connection of Happiness with Law. The culture of Happiness is the task of Government.
Law is the tool, the instrument implement it has
to work with. Let us consider in the first place the
general nature of this production; in the
next place, of the instrument: we shall then
be prepared for the enquiry, how to set at
work the latter, in order in such manner as to produce the
former.

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The end then of Laws is to produce Happiness:
this is what we have supposed: of some,
let us hope it is: of all, it ought to be.
To produce Happiness it were well to understand
clearly what it is. This then must
be our first endeavour.

3.

What is Happiness? a fundamental question.
Cicero wrote great books Volumes upon it: some of
them by misfortune we have still. Other They
great books in abundance had been made upon
it before of them fortunately
still flourish <add>to this day</add> at Oxford, at Cambridge, at
Paris at Salamanca; the plague of young




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