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There are two ways in which Pains
or Pleasures are produced. 1 By causes in which
man's action has no concern, ie: no
moral (for so they are generally called) causes: 2 By causes in which
man's action has no concern: ?ie: moral causes.
NOTE
I might mention indeed a 3d and sort of causes viz supernatural - but this viz the inbers?ctions
of the Deity performed [individually] and by
means either of the man, or of this
thing we see These we shall pass over as they But as these are as much
above our knowledge as they are above the
notion of the two other sorts of causes that
are familiar to us [, we shall pass them over.]
[Tis] the latter sort [which] is that of the two on which
Laws can profess an influence: for it is on to
man only that man's Laws can be addressed.
after he has collected much of observation such objects of comparison as a simpler model will more easily suggestIf Happiness be in man the of every thought
and action, it is by the ideas of pain or pleasure
only that action can be prevented or produced; that even can be moved be induced to action; that he can be interested. be concerned in actions: The idea
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therefore of Pain or Pleasure considered as
about to follow upon a of action or is called indifferently a Motive an Interest, and Inducement.
We are now [sufficiently] prepared to enter
upon a fresh and interesting task -
the building up as it were in our minds
putting together the idea of a Law.
The task is by this easy - The great
labour is and over.
A vast and incongruous? pile which encumbers
the site has been removed - For years I lay struggling under the rubbish. A short
sketch shall be given of it hereafter for the
instruction of the reader: it will be more
instructive after that topics of observation
have been collected [I fixed] from a simpler
model.
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1
I am a Legislator - I have a state
to govern. What I have to do is to produce
Happiness in it—I proceed [myself] to work. I
I look around me My business is to produce happiness in it I see a sort of act done which appears to me
to produce unhappiness. How does this
affect me — I wish, that it was not
done. I will that it be not done.
such a volition takes place within my
breast. The act is robbery = I will
that Robbery be not committed. This is the 1st scene in the drama. It lies within my breast.
2
It lies within my Breast—I will that Robbery
be not done—Will not it the less be
done. not if what is done rests here. If my will is to have any consequence, if
are to desist from the act in consequence of their understanding that my will is , I
must enable them to understand it—I
it is lodged in my own breast: I must make it to
to —I must give
INTROD. CH. . . Of Laws—What a Law is.
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it a vehicle to convey it
I must give it words—I must give it
expressions. I must express it.
What we have to do with at present, is the different sorts of Wills which it can happen to the Legislator to form and to express the different manners in which any one such will may be intimated or expressed is a subject that belongs to will properly come under the head with of Composition: Tis to accordingly to the book thus entitled] that we must refer it.
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