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<head>Letter 3 N.S. Wales</head> | |||
<p>18 Aug. 1802</p> | |||
<note>II. Collins<lb/> | |||
Analysis</note> | |||
<note>Depravity<lb/> | |||
—its cause.</note> | |||
<p>Depravity in its various shapes has chiefly for its <add>efficient</add> cause<lb/> | |||
and measure the excess of the <add>influence</add> <del>predominance</del> of the self-<lb/> | |||
regarding and anti-social affections or either of them, as<lb/> | |||
compared with that of the social. An indication of it<lb/> | |||
is therefore alike afforded <add>by symptoms</add> either <del>by</del> <add>of</add> a preternatural<lb/> | |||
degree of strength on the part of the self-regarding or<lb/> | |||
anti-social affections, or by a preternatural degree of<lb/> | |||
weakness on the part of the social affections, considered<lb/> | |||
in the aggregate.</p> | |||
<note>1. Rapacity</note> | |||
<p>Rapacity is a disposition resulting from the preternatural<lb/> | |||
strength of the self-regarding affections:—it is<lb/> | |||
the <add>excessive</add> unbridled <del>desire</del> <add>appetite</add> for the instruments of enjoyment<lb/> | |||
considered in the aggregate—and especially for<lb/> | |||
that one of them which as <del>been</del> constituting the general<lb/> | |||
medium of exchange affords to the <del>possession</del> assurance<lb/> | |||
of obtaining upon occasion almost any of the others.</p> | |||
<p>Rapacity has for its direct <add>immediate</add> existing causes the<lb/> | |||
strength of the several appetites of which those <del>instruments</del> <add>enjoyments</add><lb/> | |||
and consequently their instruments are their objects. In<lb/> | |||
this way it is that <hi rend="underline">drunkenness</hi>, <hi rend="underline">sexual attraction</hi>, and<lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">prodigality</hi> stand preeminent among the instruments to <del>this</del><lb/> | |||
rapacity: prodigality embracing in its import all those<lb/> | |||
minor instruments which in their aggregate force<lb/> | |||
are <del>scarce</del> <add>not</add> equal to either of the other two.</p> | |||
<note>2. Sloth</note> | |||
<p>Sloth, or the aversion to labour, <add>it may be observed</add> though a sort of<lb/> | |||
negative <add>propensity</add> quality, operates as an <add>possesses in respect of the</add> excitement <add>it affords</add> to rapacity | |||
<del>with<lb/> | |||
as much effect</del> all the efficiency of a positively impellent cause.</p> | |||
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Letter 3 N.S. Wales
18 Aug. 1802
II. Collins
Analysis
Depravity
—its cause.
Depravity in its various shapes has chiefly for its efficient cause
and measure the excess of the influence predominance of the self-
regarding and anti-social affections or either of them, as
compared with that of the social. An indication of it
is therefore alike afforded by symptoms either by of a preternatural
degree of strength on the part of the self-regarding or
anti-social affections, or by a preternatural degree of
weakness on the part of the social affections, considered
in the aggregate.
1. Rapacity
Rapacity is a disposition resulting from the preternatural
strength of the self-regarding affections:—it is
the excessive unbridled desire appetite for the instruments of enjoyment
considered in the aggregate—and especially for
that one of them which as been constituting the general
medium of exchange affords to the possession assurance
of obtaining upon occasion almost any of the others.
Rapacity has for its direct immediate existing causes the
strength of the several appetites of which those instruments enjoyments
and consequently their instruments are their objects. In
this way it is that drunkenness, sexual attraction, and
prodigality stand preeminent among the instruments to this
rapacity: prodigality embracing in its import all those
minor instruments which in their aggregate force
are scarce not equal to either of the other two.
2. Sloth
Sloth, or the aversion to labour, it may be observed though a sort of
negative propensity quality, operates as an possesses in respect of the excitement it affords to rapacity
with
as much effect all the efficiency of a positively impellent cause.
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