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endeavour to attain mathematical accuracy. To
push
If the principle were to be pused to its calen utmost extent is
To push the principle to its utmost extent is
to render the attempt ridiculous. It would be as
atrocious to neglect it altogether as it would be
absurd to pursue it in all its details.

There are some perhaps, who, at first sight,
may look upon the nicety employed with adjustment
of such the above rules as so much labour lost: for
gross ignorance, they will say, never troubles itself
about laws, the passion does not caluat calculate.
But the evil of ignorance admits of cure; & as to the
proposition that passion does not calculate, this, like
most of these very general & oracular propositions, is
not true. When matters of such importance as
pain & pleasure are at stake, & these with
highest degree (the only matters, in short, that
can be of importance) who is there that does not
calculate? Men calculate, some with less exactness
indeed, some with more: But all men calculate.
I would not say that even a madman does
not calculate. Passion calculates, more or less, in
every man: in different men according to the
warmth or coolness of their disposition: according
to the firmness or irritability of their minds:
according to the nature of the motives by which
they are acted on activated. Happily, of all passions, that
of which, by means of its strength, constancy,
& universality, society has most to apprehend:
I mean that which corresponds to the motive
of pecuniary interest: so that these niceties,
if such they are to must be called, have the best chance
of being efficacious, where efficacy is of the most
importance.


Identifier: | JB/141/020/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

141

Main Headings

rationale of punishment

Folio number

020

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

iii commensurability

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f4 / f13

Penner

richard smith

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

48237

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