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<!-- this double page is organised in two columns, each with a margin to the left --> <head>INTRODUCTION. Obligation.</head> <!-- start of left hand column --> <p>A Law is a [form of words] <add> declaration of one having power</add> predicting a portion<lb/> of happiness or unhappiness as about <add>consecutive</add><lb/> <add>upon</add> to ensue from a certain <add>mode of</add> conduct.</p> <p>The description of the conduct in question is the<lb/> directory part of the Law: the specification <add>description</add> of<lb/> the happiness or unhappiness in question<lb/> is the Sanction.<lb/><note>added to the announcement<lb/> of the connection<lb/> between them</note></p> <p>The expectation or anticipation in Idea of the<lb/> happiness or unhappiness <del>of the</del> <add> is the motive for</add><lb/> obeying the Law: <sic>va.u:</sic> that motive which the<lb/> Law [itself] affords<lb/> <note>of the accomplishment of the production</note></p> <p><note>depends upon the desperation<lb/>of a multitude<lb/> of persons to do their respective<lb/> parts towards <del>the</del><lb/> it.</note></p> <p><del>The actual accomplishment of the production</del><lb/> Under every law the party to whom it is addressed<lb/>has the option given him: whether he will<lb/> assume that conduct <add>follow the direction</add> which the law means<lb/> he should assume, and <gap/> the happiness<lb/> which <del>might accrue to him from his assuming</del><lb/> the opposite conduct might afford him: or<lb/> by assuming that happiness run <gap/> to<lb/> the direction of the Law</p> <p.<note>Men have tormented<lb/> themselves to find out<lb/> how it should be, that</note></p> <p> Because a man can better bear to <del>lose</del> <add>remain</add> without that<lb/>which <add>as yet</add> he has not, than to lose what he has got already.</p> <!-- line in ink across the column --> <p> I have seen a book where there has been much distress to find<lb/> out — — — —</p> <p><note>The answer is that — — —<lb/> not</note></p> <p>Locke & <gap/> have been turned over in vain: and at last<lb/> the conclusion has been <add>that it was</add> because</p> <p><note>When there is a <gap/><lb/>in the opposite<lb/> <gap/> to believe that of obedience<lb/> to the Law, men<lb/> <add>do not obey</add> the only thing men<lb/> ever speak of under<lb/. that name <add>when they come</add> upon<lb/> the subject of Jurisprudence</note></p> | |||
INTRODUCTION. Obligation.
A Law is a [form of words] declaration of one having power predicting a portion
of happiness or unhappiness as about consecutive
upon to ensue from a certain mode of conduct.
The description of the conduct in question is the
directory part of the Law: the specification description of
the happiness or unhappiness in question
is the Sanction.
added to the announcement
of the connection
between them
The expectation or anticipation in Idea of the
happiness or unhappiness of the is the motive for
obeying the Law: va.u: that motive which the
Law [itself] affords
of the accomplishment of the production
depends upon the desperation
of a multitude
of persons to do their respective
parts towards the
it.
The actual accomplishment of the production
Under every law the party to whom it is addressed
has the option given him: whether he will
assume that conduct follow the direction which the law means
he should assume, and the happiness
which might accrue to him from his assuming
the opposite conduct might afford him: or
by assuming that happiness run to
the direction of the Law
<p.Men have tormented
themselves to find out
how it should be, that
Because a man can better bear to lose remain without that
which as yet he has not, than to lose what he has got already.
I have seen a book where there has been much distress to find
out — — — —
The answer is that — — —
not
Locke & have been turned over in vain: and at last
the conclusion has been that it was because
When there is a
in the opposite
to believe that of obedience
to the Law, men
do not obey the only thing men
ever speak of under<lb/. that name when they come upon
the subject of Jurisprudence
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