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15 Oct 1814
Logic

☞ Add here the contrary doctrines intimated in Oxford Ell-
and Cicero's works c

III. Relations between the import of the word happiness and
that of the words pleasure and pain.

Sole elements position of happiness, alias felicity alias well
being – pleasure and exemptions from and those determinate ones negative happiness
&c exemption from pain, and those equally determinate
ones.

Determinant import thereby given to the word utility,
a word necessarily employed for consciousness sake, in
lieu of a phrase more or less protracted, in which
the presence of pleasures and the absence of pains
would be to be brought to view.

An action may be regarded considered and spoken of as
useful, as conducive to general utility, in proportion
to the value of any the pleasures which it is its tendency
to produce to give birth to, or of any pains which
it is the tendency to avert.

I Whether there ever was a time at which the
word happiness failed of presenting itself to my mind in
the ag character of an aggregate or compound, of which
pleasures and the exemption from corresponding to pains were are
the elements is more than at present I can recollect.
The satisfaction I remember to have experienced at the observation
of this notice interpretation as given to it in the first
place by Helvetius(a) (a) in his book De L'Esprit. in the said afterwards by Dr
Hartley(b) (b) in his treatise on Man: or rather the abridgment of it as given by affords some presumption of its being at the
first of those times near to me. But perhaps the cause of
that satisfaction was not the novelty of the action in relation to
any one conception, but the circumstances of seeing the confirmation
given by them in their works.

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