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Music, by raising sounds agreeable to the sonic;
& in some sort, by the faint shadowing of
ideas, which related to that of sound, or have some sort of dependence
tho' remote, from sense.
I have to have done the imagination of the reader to may
compleat the draught — Even Poetry, Painting in
all their various branches, History Grammar, Logic
Metaphysics, all the remaining Arts or Sciences
which have or ever will have a name, may in the like manner
be connected, some by a shorter and coarser,
others by a longer & + + more fine-drawn
thread, with [this their ground work] Happiness
their ground-work, and with each other. [c] [c] o.p. 3. Note.
What then is the province of Legislation?
In what way does it lend it's aid to Happiness?
What is it's aspect to the other Arts?
LEGISLATION. Legislation contributes to Happiness by securing
men in the possession, directing them in
the uses and disposing them to the accumulation
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of the instruments of enjoyment, fruits of
all the other arts, as well as of those which lie
too much so neatly at hand as not to stand in need of Arts.
and this it does: And this it does, bringing
men to concur in a conformity to these
purposes by means of specific allottments
of pleasure and pain and pleasure (of pain to those who impede the above purposes and or of pleasure to those who forward them) to accrue to them
in virtue of the will of particular persons
appointed or suffer'd for the purpose.
ETHICS [to others] Social Ethics as it respects a man's conduct to others
contributes to happiness by teaching him
how to demean themselves himself in that use of the
several instruments of enjoyingment, as not
to impede but forward the enjoyments
of those around him, in the instance of such
actions of his as Legislation can reach, as of them
it cannot: And this it does, bringing him
to act in conformity to it's purposes, by pointing
out to him the copious tho' unliquidated allottments
of pain & pleasure likely to accrue to him
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