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It may perhaps assist the understanding & recollection of the
subject if the Penitological principles be arrayed under a
few heads, taking the shape of axioms.

Happiness may be defined to be the possession of pleasures
with the absence of pains, — or the possession of a preponderant
amount of pleasure over pains.

Good & evil when resolved into their elements are composed
of pleasures & pains.

These pleasures & pains may be either negative
or positive — growing out of the absence of the one, — or the presence
of the presence of the other.

The possession of a pleasure, — or the absence of a menaced pain, is good.

The presence of a pain — or the absence of a
promised pleasure, is evil.

A positive good is the possession — or the expectation
of a pleasure — A negative good is the exemption — or the cause
of exemption from a pain.

Sensations are of two sorts —those accompanied
by pleasure or by pain — of those which are unaccompanied
by either. It is only that on those which produce pain &
pleasure that motives or sanctions can be brought to operate.

The value of a pleasure separately considered
depends on its intensity — duration & extent. On these qualities
its importance to society depends — or in other words, its
power of adding to the sum of individual & or general happiness.

The magnitude of a pleasure depends on its
intensity & duration.

The extent of a pleasure depends on the number of
who enjoy it.

And the same laws apply to pains

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Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	340	Info in main headings field
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