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Music, by raising sounds agreeable to the sense;
& in some sort, by the faint shadowing of
ideas, which related to that of sound, or have some sort of dependence
tho' remote, from sense.
I leave it to have done the imagination of the reader to may
compleat the draught — Even Poetry, Painting in
all their various branches, History Grammar, Logic
Metaphysics, all the remaining Arts or Sciences
which have or ever will have a name, may in the like manner
be connected, some by a shorter and coarser,
others by a longer & + + more fine-drawn
thread, with [this their ground work] Happiness
their ground-work, and with each other. [c] [c] o.p. 3. Note.
What then is the province of Legislation?
In what way does it lend it's aid to Happiness?
What is it's aspect to the other Arts?
LEGISLATION. Legislation contributes to Happiness by securing
men in the possession, directing them in
the uses and disposing them to the accumulation
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of the instruments of enjoyment, fruits of
all the other arts, as well as of those which lie
too much so neatly at hand as not to stand in need of Arts.
and this it does: And this it does, bringing
men to concur in a conformity to these
purposes by means of specific allottments
of pleasure and pain and pleasure (of pain to those who impede the above purposes and or of pleasure to those who forward them) to accrue to them
in virtue of the will of particular persons
appointed or suffer'd for the purpose.
ETHICS [to others] Social Ethics as it respects a man's conduct to others
contributes to happiness by teaching him
how to demean themselves himself in that use of the
several instruments of enjoyingment, as not
to impede but forward the enjoyments
of those around him, in the instance of such
actions of his as Legislation can reach, as of them
it cannot: And this it does, bringing him
to act in conformity to it's purposes, by pointing
out to him the copious tho' unliquidated allottments
of pain & pleasure likely to accrue to him
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according as he pursues this or that plan of conduct. from the spontaneous dispositions towards him
of other men at large. [d] [d] v. p. 3 Note
ETHICS Solitary Ethics as it respects a man's conduct within to himself
teaches him how to give the sum of his
enjoyments the it's greatest magnitude, by the proportion
betwixt the several enjoyments whereof the instruments
are within his reach: and this it does
by teaching the natural property that each any
species enjoyment expended beyond a certain proportion has to produce pain when tested
beyond a certain proportion, or to impede an
enjoyment of another species: pointing out
also as a source of pleasure pain and pleasure:
the different dispositions of other men towards him consequent on
a provident or improvident proportion. apportionment.
Divinity. Divinity when it contributes to Happiness,
does so by teaching what is done towards the
bringing men to act in conformity to the purposes
of Ethics and Legislation, by pleasure
and pain to accrue by virtue of the will of
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a supreme being in a future State.
It is these three kindred Sciences that are
the Master Sciences which superintend the
operations, direct the efforts, prescribe the
limits, & dispose of the productions of the
rest. [e] [e] v. p. 4. Note. The distinct share which claimed by each
to itself in these prerogatives we
shall see more particularly observe more commodiously hereafter.
Meantime let us we should be to return to Legislation ( or
which is the same thing to Jurisprudence
which being for Jurisprudence is only that which teaches what is or is done, or is to be
done by Legislation: was it not that Happiness But Happiness first
which we have spoken of thus far But the nature of Happiness first demands
only in general and our notice. This is be nothing less than a
either for a [in digression. Witherto we have spoken of it only
friend. This will be nothing less than a digression in general and indistinct expressions. But it is upon a just analysis, & accurate comprehension of it's nature, that the solidity of all our conclusions, practical as well as speculative, will for to depend for the .
since it is on the accuracy of our analgies
and of this idea and the truth of or speculations
concerning it that we have to trust for
the solidity
of whatever most of the &
as well as practical conclusions shall have
occasion to deliver.
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