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Indirect Legislation
Diverting
Now
Now [then] as to the means of raising up rival propensities
to combat these the obnoxious ones above mentioned enumerated,
1. First then as to the Encouraging innocent amusements. This is one
branch of that very complex and not very well defined
head of policy which consists in what is called
promoting civilization. An rude or uncivilized state is
distinguished from a civilized state by two general
characteristics: by the strength of the irascible appetite
2. by the paucity and want of variety in the
enjoyments which offer themselves to their concupis-
-cible(b)
Note
(b) The division of the appetites into irascible and
concupiscible is to be met with in some of the
most current systems of morals. The irascible appetite
is the appetite for the pleasures of ill-will.
To the concupiscible appetite correspond all the
other sorts of pleasures: except the pleasures of
benevolence, the pleasures of amity, the pleasures of
reputation or of the moral sanction, and the pleasures
of piety or of the religious sanction. See
Princ. of legisl. Introd. Ch [Pleasures and Pains]
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