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' | <p>30 Aug 1814 §3</p> | ||
<head>Logic or Deontology</head> | |||
<note>Ch Well being</note> | |||
<p>1 <note>§3 Well being fundaments</note></p> | |||
<p>||3 Quantity of well being in human life, its preponderance over<lb/> | |||
S. 3 <del>Well-being and <add><gap/> of</add></del> <add>that of</add> <hi rend="underline">Ill-being</hi>. <del>— their comparative quantity</del><lb/> | |||
<del>in the human species <add>in mankind</add> <add>human life</add></del> <add>world</add>.</p> | |||
<p><del>In the</del> Taking the whole of mankind together<lb/> | |||
<del>on</del> which side of the account does the <sic>ballance</sic> lie? on the<lb/> | |||
well-being, or on the ill-being side?</p> | |||
<p>If religion were out of the question, the answer would<lb/> | |||
require <unclear>some</unclear> a moments thought:— on the side of <hi rend="underline">well-being</hi><lb/> | |||
beyond dispute: of well-being, existence is of itself a conclusive<lb/> | |||
proof. So little <add>small</add> is the quantity of pain necessarily<lb/> | |||
accompanying the termination of existence.</p> | |||
<p>But [under the guidance of religion] men have made to<lb/> | |||
themselves one almighty being, whose delight is in human misery:<lb/> | |||
and who to prevent mens <add>a man's</add> escaping from <del>the</del> whatsoever<lb/> | |||
misery he may be threatened with in the present life,<lb/> | |||
has without having den<gap/> its firm<gap/> a determination<lb/> | |||
in <del>escape</del> case of <add>the event of</add> any such escape, to plunge him into<lb/> | |||
infinitely greater misery in a life to come</p> | |||
<p>Even taking the Christian religion for true, this<lb/> | |||
notion is a <unclear>most</unclear> vain and groundless conceit. For the<lb/> | |||
Christian scripture is <add><unclear>his</unclear></add> open to every eye: and in no<lb/> | |||
one part of it is any intimation given of any such<lb/> | |||
doom.</p> | |||
<p>By no precept has Jesus been represented as forbidding<lb/> | |||
suicide.</p> | |||
<p>By his own example he is represented as approving<lb/> | |||
of it. <del><gap/></del> Possessed <del>not merely of the highest</del> now of superhuman<lb/> | |||
power, <del>Jesus</del> having power, though it was for ever, to exempt<lb/> | |||
himself from death, Jesus purposely and spontaneously subjected<lb/> | |||
himself to it. <del><gap/></del> What <del><gap/></del> this did, it was for all men,<lb/> | |||
<add>1.1</add></p> | |||
<note>1.1 <del><gap/></del> to promote the<lb/> | |||
well being of all men<lb/> | |||
that he did it. Will<lb/> | |||
this be said? What he<lb/> | |||
thought right that by one<lb/> | |||
(person it should be done by<lb/> | |||
all men, how could he <unclear>think</unclear><lb/> | |||
it otherwise than right, that by every <add>each</add> person <add>it should</add>, upon occasion, be done for himself</note> | |||
30 Aug 1814 §3
Logic or Deontology Ch Well being
1 §3 Well being fundaments
||3 Quantity of well being in human life, its preponderance over
S. 3 Well-being and of that of Ill-being. — their comparative quantity
in the human species in mankind human life world.
In the Taking the whole of mankind together
on which side of the account does the ballance lie? on the
well-being, or on the ill-being side?
If religion were out of the question, the answer would
require some a moments thought:— on the side of well-being
beyond dispute: of well-being, existence is of itself a conclusive
proof. So little small is the quantity of pain necessarily
accompanying the termination of existence.
But [under the guidance of religion] men have made to
themselves one almighty being, whose delight is in human misery:
and who to prevent mens a man's escaping from the whatsoever
misery he may be threatened with in the present life,
has without having den its firm a determination
in escape case of the event of any such escape, to plunge him into
infinitely greater misery in a life to come
Even taking the Christian religion for true, this
notion is a most vain and groundless conceit. For the
Christian scripture is his open to every eye: and in no
one part of it is any intimation given of any such
doom.
By no precept has Jesus been represented as forbidding
suicide.
By his own example he is represented as approving
of it. Possessed not merely of the highest now of superhuman
power, Jesus having power, though it was for ever, to exempt
himself from death, Jesus purposely and spontaneously subjected
himself to it. What this did, it was for all men,
1.1
1.1 to promote the
well being of all men
that he did it. Will
this be said? What he
thought right that by one
(person it should be done by
all men, how could he think
it otherwise than right, that by every each person it should, upon occasion, be done for himself
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