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1828. Jany. 29
Law Amendment.
13. or 6. A quantity of the matter of wealth
may be assigned so small, that if substraction from the fortune
of a person possessed of a certain quantity of the
matter of abundance no sensible substraction of happiness
would ensue be the result. In this case the Similar state of things
that produced by the dropping of one of the particles
of an impalpable powder into one scale of an ordinarily
constructed pair of scales.
Of
14 or 7. The larger the fortune of the individual in
question, the greater the probability that by the substraction of
the quantity in question a given quantity of the matter of wealth no substraction
at all will be made from the quantity of his happiness.
15 or 8. So likewise For the same reason, if the ratio, of the
sum to be substracted to the mass aggregate from wherever it is to be substracted,
be so great, that, by the substraction of it, substraction of a quantity
more or less considerable, can not but be made from the aggregate
of happiness, – still the larger the fortune in the case
of each individual the aggregate of wealth is from which the
substraction is made, the less will be the substraction from quantity sub
happiness of happiness, so substracted, as above.
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