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1827. Octr. 7
Penal & Civil and Constitutional Codes For Law Amendment
Ch.11 Codification
§. Offences collectively
1. Persons. 2 Reputation? 3. Property. 4. Power, self serving
5. - other serving
I Propositions?
Ch. Explanats of Axioms
S.L's Source for person
828
Ch 11
Fundamental Explanations and Observations or say Axioms
of mental Pathology, applicable to all those Codes.
To come before or stand part of the Chapter on the progress of Good and Evil in the community
Take this from the 2d half Sheet of the Axioms of Pathology from
Denmark in G. Br. hand
1
Reasons for security
against misdeeds productive
of pain to body or mind
of individuals!
1. Reasons Observations furnishing reasons for the production of
persons mentioned against acts agency, human or natural or other events productive of pain or
say uneasiness to body or mind: in other words for
the affording of security to persons, as any personal security 2
Of pain producing murder
the result is either pure
evil or at any rate the
the mass of evil preponderates
over the mass of good
3
If the pain be produced
by natural agency the
evil is to the a with good
hence the necessity of
security against casualty
or calamity
Note(a)
When from the an act positive
(a negative act is the same thing as an act of omission on the part
of one person another experiences pain or uneasiness, either
this result of the act was being the consideration of it was beinga source of satisfaction to the a
this result of the act was by the contemplated or
intended it was not of it was all, at pleasure
with the
In the
Note shew more in
detail the end by exemplification,
the impurity
of a pleasure of antipathy
or ill-will in every imaginable
case. This has
been done in other
papers of old.
this result it at its happening a source of satisfaction to
the egreed or it is not: if not, the by the supposition the result
is so much pure evil. Evil If it is be a source of satisfaction
to him still here indeed is a g pleasure in other
words a good: but still there is a net balance in the
side of evil: For in no casee does the pleasure derived
by one man contemplation of any pain expressed
by another, equal by a great degree to that same pain
the contemplation of which was the cause of it
Now suppose then thereason for endeavouring to gain security for the pain of Lewins to be the reaction of against pain of body in
man ag resulting
from human agency
whether from design
or inattention
purely natural agency, no human agency having any part in
the production of it: the results no human being deriving any
satisfaction from the contemplation of it: the result is still the same
Hear the one reason for endeavouring to give security against pain of body
or mind resulting from casually, or as the word is above the evil is
considered as having place upon a larger scale, calamity
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