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3 Sept 1811 Jug Util B.II
3 Sept 1811

Jug Util

B.II

Ch.1.

§.2.

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In the breast of a consistent thinker the /intensity of/ terror will be as intense in proportion to the value, all dimensions taken together of the mass of misery which is the object of it. In each dimension the value of that mass as [...?] /estimated/ in the sacred writings /New Testament/ is placed at the very highest point to which the /ways/ power of the imagination is able to soar.

1. For intensity, we have the pain produced by fire: among the highest and at the same time the most familiar of all pain and sources of pain of which we /man/ have experience.

2. For duration, we have eternity. At the bottom of the pagan magazine of miseries, at the bottom of Pandora's box, /lay/ there was Hope: at the bottom of the magazine /assortment/ of torments manufactured by the God of infinite benevolence—at the bottom of the Christian box /Christian box/, there is no Hope.
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