1817 Dec r 31

Not Paul

III. Doctrine

Ch. Asceticism

When by the principle of asceticism condemnation has been passed upon any species or

mode of pleasure [N.B. it is exclusively to the pleasures of the body i.e. to those

in the instance of which the seat of the pleasure is in the body that the principle

of asceticism has attached itself for the purpose of /with a view to/ condemnation.]

When by this principle condemnation has been passed upon any species or mode of

pleasure it is /has/ always been on the ground of the seat, or

the source or both: on these occasions they /seat or source/

have respectively been found to be impure. In this case the

condemnation passed has it source in an illusion of the fancy, and the means employed

by it to obtain submission is an abuse of words.

Of the only clear and usefully applicable sense in which the words pure and impure are capable of being employed

/applied to pleasure/, an explanation /a view/ has been given

under the head of the principle of utility: and in these cases they are applicable

with equal propriety to pain.

In both instances alike in the one no less than in that of the other the idea

belongs to the same department in the field of thought and action: in one and the

same and that the moral one.