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A To place prominently forward the connection between
interest and duty in all the concerns of private life is the object
now proposed. The more closely the subject is examined the more
obvious will the argument agreement between interest and duty appear.
All laws which have for their end the happiness of those concerned
endeavour to make that for a man's interest which they proclaim
to be his duty. And in the moral field it cannot be
a man's duty to do that which it is not his interest to do.
Morality will teach him rightly to estimate his interest and
his duties, and examination will show their coincidence.
[That a man ought to sacrifice his interest happiness to his duty is a
very common position, — that such or such a man has
sacrificed his interest happiness to his duty is a common assertion, —
and made the groundwork of admiration. But when interest happiness
and duty are considered in their broadest sense it will be
seen that in the general tenor of life the sacrifice of a
interest happiness to duty is neither possible nor so much as desirable —
that it cannot in fact have place — and that if
it could tho happiness interests of mankind would not be promoted
by it.]

Sacrifice

It has been almost invariably the practice in treating
of morals to speak of a man's duty and nothing more —
now though it can scarcely be said with truth
that what is not a man's interest is not his duty, it
may be safely pronounced that unless it can be shown
that a particular action or course of conduct is for a
man's interest, the attempt to prove to him that it is his
duty will be but a waste of words. Yet with such waste

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings
Folio number	350	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	a
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	i m & co 1831
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1831
Notes public		ID Number	50204
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