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waste of words has the field of Ethics been hitherto filled. "It is
your duty to do this — it is your duty to abstain from doing that" —
And this is easy travelling for a public instruction that why
is it my duty? And the answer, if sifted, will be found to be —
'Because I bid you — because it is my opinion — my will" —
'Well, but suppose I do not conform myself to this will
of yours?' — 'O then you will do very wrong' — which being
interpreted means 'I shall not approve of your conduct.'
It will scarcely be denied that every man does act with
a view to his own interest — not a correct view —
because that would obtain for him the greatest possible
portion of felicity, and if every man aching correctly
for his own interest obtained the maximum of
obtainable happiness, mankind would reach the
millenium of accessible bliss, and the end of morality —
the general happiness — be accomplished.] To prove that
an immoral action is a miscalculation of self-interest
to show how erroneous an estimate the vicious man
makes of pains and pleasures — this is the purpose of
the sound of intelligent moralist. Unless he can do this, he
does nothing; for, as has been stated above, for that a man
of? not to pursue what he desires deems conducive to his
happiness is in the very nature of things impossible.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings
Folio number	351	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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	50205
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