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• • • to the misapplication *** principles to morality, the misapplication of
      

religion ******* *** its *** *** the causes of immorality,- and its misapplication
will be *** whoever its sanctions are applied to the diminution of the balance pleasure
or the production of balance of pain. And there can be no stronger test of the *** *** falsehood of
any religion that its ****** or ***** to the greatest human happiness.
To understand religion is to understand the will of God. God is a being ***
whose attribute is benevolence- benevolence not imperfect, not limited,- but
infinite benevolence. And how can He be benevolent but in proportion to
the quantity of happiness which it is his *** to *** enjoyed by those who are
subject to his power. And of that happiness be not an amply ***, of what can
it be compared but of pleasures? *** the pleasure what is *** to demand
its *** and imminent without the institution of a greater pleasure,- or to superride
it by a more than equivalent pain, cannot be an act of benevolence- To
speak of a being ofas benevolent & to represent him as ***ing,- intending to
procure a balance of mercy is *** is a contradiction in terms- And by the
use of *** phraseology can the character of things be altered- Neither *** nor

• • • change their nature, because their nature is so *** designated by words.
      

If a stab be called a kiss it does not therupon become an act of kindness.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	219	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f74
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	b&m 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	5435
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