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The ends of morality will however be on all occasions<lb/>best served by the habit of comparing on <del><gap/></del> <add>the consequences</add><lb/>of action — of weighing these results of pain & pleasure —<lb/>estimating the profit & loss to human happiness on the whole —<lb/>The ablest moralist will be who calculates best, — & the most<lb/>virtuous man will be he who most successfully applies<lb/>right calculation to conduct. Here will the result be always<lb/>attainable without circuitousness, — without reference to<lb/>motives & consequences not immediately adjacent. To aim at<lb/>virtuous conduct is the first element of success</p> | |||
<p>Aiming .. supposes judgment — judgment is a comparison<lb/>of two ideas at a time, the pronouncing that one of them is or is<lb/>not conformable to the other.</p> | |||
<p>When he who delivers the ball at Cricket takes aim, you see him<lb/>balancing <add>the</add> <del>his</del> hand <add>that holds it</add> backwards and forwards several times before he parts<lb/>with it — What is it that passes in his mind all the while - he is<lb/>placing the moving forces of his hand in an infinity of different<lb/>situations, he is adjusting the several muscular fibres of his hand and<lb/>arm to their several degrees of tension, all these different adjustments<lb/>pass over in review to no other purpose than out of them all to find some<lb/>one which he recollected under parallel circumstances <add>distance</add> of ground etc.<lb/>to have been attended with the same effect, viz. of hitting the <add><gap/> <gap/></add> <del>stump</del><lb/><add>which is the aim of his action</add> <del>what he is aiming to produce.</del></p> | |||
<p>Here are then an infinity of judgments passed in the compass<lb/>of a few instants: for of all the adjustments that he has tried before<lb/>his coming to that which determines the casting of the ball, there is<lb/><add>not <gap/></add> <del><gap/></del> one of which he has not pronounced that it was different<lb/>from any of those he had in his memory as models. (p. 52.)</p> | |||
56
Mu My
The ends of morality will however be on all occasions
best served by the habit of comparing on the consequences
of action — of weighing these results of pain & pleasure —
estimating the profit & loss to human happiness on the whole —
The ablest moralist will be who calculates best, — & the most
virtuous man will be he who most successfully applies
right calculation to conduct. Here will the result be always
attainable without circuitousness, — without reference to
motives & consequences not immediately adjacent. To aim at
virtuous conduct is the first element of success
Aiming .. supposes judgment — judgment is a comparison
of two ideas at a time, the pronouncing that one of them is or is
not conformable to the other.
When he who delivers the ball at Cricket takes aim, you see him
balancing the his hand that holds it backwards and forwards several times before he parts
with it — What is it that passes in his mind all the while - he is
placing the moving forces of his hand in an infinity of different
situations, he is adjusting the several muscular fibres of his hand and
arm to their several degrees of tension, all these different adjustments
pass over in review to no other purpose than out of them all to find some
one which he recollected under parallel circumstances distance of ground etc.
to have been attended with the same effect, viz. of hitting the stump
which is the aim of his action what he is aiming to produce.
Here are then an infinity of judgments passed in the compass
of a few instants: for of all the adjustments that he has tried before
his coming to that which determines the casting of the ball, there is
not one of which he has not pronounced that it was different
from any of those he had in his memory as models. (p. 52.)
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