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Limits between Pain and Pleasure. (4
-ther feel than not feel". So- far as possible: but a little
late in which further he goes on and says: "Every sensation during
which a man would neither wish to sleep, nor pass on to any
other sensation, every such sensation is a Pleasure. [+]
[+] insert here the slip Of Pain
Practical ill-consequences.
Having thus by one rash (6) stroke at the very outset, not down every
degree of Pleasure from under him, but the highest, we need
not wonder at finding him at the end of his career terminating
in the abyss cavern of despair. abyss of Desperation. Tis From this Definition
he sits out and builds upon it drives out of it a spins out
his theory: and the practical conclusion
is that no man of common understanding
should waste delay a moment in the to rid himself
of the load of wretchedness entailed on him
in this life, were it not for the infinitely greater
load that such an exertion of prudence would draw down
bring on him in the next.
In the short definition we 7 have seen lies the
Distemper - no slight one we may it is plain.
In as a still shorter a Definition may be comprized
the cure. I call Pain every sensation that
a man had rather feel none than feel. I call
Pleasure, every sensation that a man had rather
feel at that instant than feel none.
Genuine Definition of Pain and Pleasure.
Of Pain.
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