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INTRODUCTION CH. II.

Definitions — Dimensions of Happiness

Ch. 3. Of Law in general Measures of its expediency [Of all the speculations of] Mathematicians, there is none more celebrated nor more incontestible
than that concerning the three dimensions of Body, Length, Breadth & depth without the union of
which there is no conceiving it's the union of all which is necessary to the conception of it's existence. If we would attain to the accuracy of their speculations, we must imitate follow their example: & by taking our subject to focus in the same regular manner, & viewing it in the same steady light as they have done theirs, learn to give upon occasion to each of idea which are distinguishable in our subject, it's separate consideration

Analogous too & equally incontestible with these, Happiness has also its dimensions
attributed to a single person, those of 1st Intensity: 2d. Duration: attributed to many
as to a State, another, that of number: i:e: of the persons possessing it.
If we make the comparison of the magnitude of one body for the purpose of proving a conclusion with another, concerning their respective magnitudes we must presently perceive, that [the result Purity, and Probability.Happiness as to what concerns the amplitude of it's acceptition, has 2 Lenses. The
one may be Sic: according as one only or both of it's dimensions are taken into consideration at a time called collective, the other distributive.

Collective - as if I were to say Cicero was happier than Pompey thus & no more Cicero was a happier man than Catline; or nor to make preserve the very word proposed least it sho a variation in the logical idea should in part be supposed suspected to arise from the transition substitution of a grammatical

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