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INTRODUCTION. DIMENSIONS of HAPPINESS & MISERY in general.
Contradistinct to Happiness, and susceptible of the same dimensions is unhappiness or misery suffering or pain -
As Pleasure is to Happiness, so is Pain to Misery.
Uneasiness is Pain is either 1st mental. 2d. bodily.
Bodily Mental pain is needs can bring a simple Idea to neither to be defined nor divided nor can it's origin be assigned but it is felt.
Mental pain arises either 1st from the consciousness of a past loss of the In
Instruments of Happiness, and is then called in general or more particularly, mortification uneasiness concern &c according to those several modes or degrees of it which are not distinguished separated from each otgher by any very precise boundaries Grief — or 2dly from an apprehension
of a future loss of those Instruments, and as then may be called anxiety: being Terror in a less degree. or 3dly from app
apprehension of future bodily pain: in both these last cases Fear, Anxiety or dread, Terror, alarm and is then called Terror, apprehension Here we may observe that unsteadiness of language, peculiarly adverse to moral subjects. a of these terms to express an Idea can be read for a to the exclusion of the rest ['It is not practicable'.] I would not permitt to we can not maintain uniformity of appellation nomenclature and the precision (which depends upon it by adhering constantly to one term. Happiness itself is too strong an one. Unhappiness is sometimes too strong — Pain is apt to be confined to bodily alone. We must therefore use all these appellations therefore, together with mischief in
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