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Beginning with a prospect which The prospect we set out with is of such extent as to puts no
conception to the it's utmost stretch: we shall
find ourselves insensibly relieved: The strain
upon the attention will grow less and less as the field which from it's distant vastness to our first
glances had offer'd to our first glances on uncertain and obscure
perspective, brings forward it's successive
parts in their distinguishing characteristic shapes and colours. to the to the
eye. approaching eye.
Besides
[c] In this rapid & cursory view of things, many particulars for want of room must necessarily be omitted. One might here observe, for instance that
besides the Happiness which directly results
from the putting of the instruments of enjoyment
to their respective uses which a Happiness that belongs
to the community at large; there is one sort
of Happiness and that of a very transcendent
nature, which is peculiar to the inventors,
as such: another and which comes next to
it, that of the 1st enjoyers — But to insist
on this would lead us from our purpose.
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[b] The philosophes to be speaking of the same. It is the same which is adopted in the Encyclopedias
at least by in the celebrated French work
of that name, so entitled written in which
has superseded all the rest — The other, which
is that here touched upon could it have answered
the purpose in other respects; would have had their one peculiar considerable advantage over any other, that
which it served as a basis of attachment to
the several respective articles, it would serve as a
touchstone to indicate their value. The
misfortune is, that in some of them, the
thread of connection would in however
real & indisputable, would depend upon a
thread too tortuous and minute for the
purpose of such a plan: a plan the perfection of which
consists in the rapidity with which it enables
the mind to seize upon the relations between
the parts of it. Nor would it perhaps have been practicable to proceed on this plan, without having recourse to the other for subdivisions. That The thread which leads to our
own science is straight & visible: Observed with diligence & pursued with constancy it will
serve us throughout as a sole & sufficient guide. to not our
enquiries.] and as such we shall adopt embrace it.
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[d] It may be perceived that in the latter part
of this account of Ethics, I represent rather
what it might be made of it than what [it]
has been hitherto. The business employment of [the] a great][er]
part of Moralists is has taken another turn to cry out to us
till they are hoarse to act without interest,
that is without inducement: in consequence
they give us none: they tell us how we are
to behave, and we are to behave so because
they tell us.
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