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INTRODUCTION. Principle of Utility. Prejudices against

The truth of the matter seems to be, that
when by the time the Idea time is arrived to this pitch of
abstraction, it loses as it were its figure signification in the mind
hence it is bandied about from speaker to
speaker, till coming to those some one who not being more attending
or perhaps never having recognized it's genealogy
(from whence the significance of the word expressing it is devised) learns
to imagine that it has some [the word has no significance]
or at least that it may once might have had is so far
lost evaporated, as not to be recoverable for the
purposes of being applied to particular cases particular application.+ + Example IV D'Alembert 131 It is a spectacle not a little surprizing to observe a writer the 1st perhaps of the age for the extent & precision of his knowledge regard the notion of utility under the confused aspect here described.

Another obstacle to the reception of this [standard]
is a certain impotence of mind, wherby
a person is unable to hold an object keep a moral object suspended in a
light that is disagreable to him, tho' it be
[ever so] necessary for the examination of it's nature

An action which, being generally disapproved,
or even really prejudicial, he is in the habit
of condemning or underrating, he will not
bear to see tho' for a moment exposed exhibited in
that side point of view on which it is really beneficial,
and which if it were it's only one would
denominate constitute it beneficial altogether.

There are those who swell themselves up with
high sounding notions words notions of the dignity purity of human nature,
& a sublime contempt for every thing that
partakes of senses

A person if th Here will hear of utility perhaps, with
a tolerable degree of complacency, His applepie, like the Irishman's is not to have any apples in it, but to be all of quinces. & that for
the very reason that for which the preceding class would reject
it, because having been pushed [as remote
it can be from sense which is the
basis of it] as far from above sense which is the basis of
it, as it can be, it lost has lost in their
eyes it's connection with sense, & along with
it, it's meaning.

Talk to such an one of the physical pleasure
of love, of a portion of utility accruing
from the perception of that pleasure, [he will
detest] such grossness is not to be born. He will
not allow it for a pleasure, as if he should
find it difficult to avoid to allow it for such in compliance
with common speech, his happiness
however shall have no such pleasures in it. some ancient past Orator, or pretended Philosopher He has read from Cicero, or some other such solemn confounder of Ideas languages, that pleasure is the only thing in the world for destroying happiness, & that pain is just as ill calculated for augmenting [promoting] misery.

If you come to the pleasure of eating, the
sense which has nothing connected with

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