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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.

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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]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	48237
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