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What can be done for morality in the field of self-interest is to
draw show how much a man's own happiness depends
upon himself — how much on the effects of his constant
prudence in the breasts of those with whom he is
connected by the ties of mutual sympathy — how
much the interest which others feel in his happiness and how
much the desire to promote it depend on his own doings.
Suppose a man wedded to intoxication. He will be
taught to consider and weigh the amount of pleasure and
pain growing out of his conduct. He will view on one
side the intensity and the duration of the pleasurable
excitement: Here this will be the account on the side of profit.
Per contra he will be led to estimate 1st Sickness and
other effects prejudicial to health. 2. Future contingent
pains growing out of probable debility and disease —
3d the loss of time and the loss of money, and these in
proportion to the value of time and money in his
individual case — 4. the pain produced in the minds
of those who are dear to him — as for instance, a
parent, a wife, a husband, a child. — 5. The disrepute
attached to the practice — the loss of reputation in the
eyes of others. — 6. The risk of legal punishment and
the disgrace attaching to it — as when where the public exhibition
of that temporary insanity produced by intoxication
is visited by the Laws — 7. the risks of punishments
attached to crimes which a man is liable to commit while
gratifying the propensity to inebriety. — 8. the misery produced
by apprehension of punishment in a future state
of being."

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings
Folio number	359	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5
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Notes public		ID Number	50213
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