A few editorial pencil marks, perhaps Grote.

1821 Novr 18

Jug Util

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§ All comprehensive sketch

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Thus it is that if by contributing to give determination to human conduct Natural Religion be in any way contributory to human happiness, it must be by means of a directive rule or rules or by means of a sanction or sanctions, furnished by it.

By a temptation is meant any pleasure or exemption from pain the present enjoyment or eventual expectation of which is considered as operating with or without success in the character of an inducement, inducing man to proceed in what is regarded as a wrong path, /to the dereliction of/ in preference to what is regarded as the right one.

Any step which by the force of the temptation a man has been led to take in such wrong path, /may be termed and/ is commonly termed a

misdeed.

The tendency of a temptation is to produce misdeeds, the tendency of a sanction is to prevent them /misdeeds/.

Temptation then there are as many and as various as the occasions on which by the eventual expectation of pleasure or exemption from pain in any shape a man may be led into the commission of a misdeed in any shape. Temptations are inducements regarded as detrimental to human happiness—in a word as pernicious—say mischievous upon the whole. Sanctions are inducements regarded as contributory to human happiness, in a word as beneficial upon the whole.

Of Sanctions the aggregate mass may be derided, and in this occasion requires to be divided by means of two different sources of division: One source is the nature of the inducement itself, the other the nature of the source from which it flows.

From the consideration of the nature of the inducement itself sanctions may be and commonly are divided or distinguished into remuneratory: and punitory: remuneratory when the inducement is composed of pleasure or exemption of pain, held out to view or regarded as consequent upon the proceeding on the course prescribed by the correspondent directive rule: punitory where it is composed of pain or loss of pleasure held out to view or regarded as consequent upon the proceeding in a course opposite to that prescribed by the correspondent directive rule: in other words, as consequent upon the yielding to the correspondent temptation, transgressing the correspondent directive rule, and committing in the correspondent shape a misdeed.