31 Aug 1811 1 Sept

Jug. Util.

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B.II.

Ch.3

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The idea that a man is not to chose his own pleasures

but that others are to chose them for him is the height of

tyranny. Given this he is not to do any thing for himself.

Bounaparte is a less pernicious tyrant.

For this folly and this presumption, and this mischievousness a sort of mask is made /by/ out of the ambiguous import of such words as pure and impure

purity and impurity, clean and unclean, cleanness and uncleanness: and on no better or other ground than the identity of denomination, and the weak and distant analogy by /in/ which that identity /took its use/ was produced, a /psychological/ moral quality is inferred from the physical.

Such or such an act /a mark/ where it is not accompanied with pleasure is disgusting to sense, and on this account may then may with propriety be /made/ termed unclean and impure. Be it so: for those /in that case/ being by the supposition not accompanied with preponderant pleasure, it has for its accompaniment pain—for this is the genus[?] under which the slightest imaginable as well as the most afflictive possible sensation of the disagreeable kind may be ranked—/in the way of sensation/ it has for its accompaniment pain and nothing else.

But in the other case /case in question/.

It is then from its being impure and unclean in the physical sense that its being impure and unclean in the psychological, the moral sense is inferred? Oh no: be it ever so impure and unclean in the physical sense no such attribute /quality/ as uncleanness or impurity will be attributed /ascribed/ to it in the moral, in the religious, sense, unless it be considered as accompanied with pleasure.

In the pleasure consists the impurity and thence with it the blame the ground for censure /cause the supposed/.

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Mask made for this folly and tyranny out of the ambiguity of pure, impure, clean,uncleanness, unclean on no better ground than identity of denomination, with the distant analogy by which it has been produced, a psychologico-moral quality in inferred from the physical.

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When not accompanied with preponderant pleasure, such or such an act is accompanied with disgust, i.e. with pain. Is it in that case that by the ascetic it is termed impure unclear? No: add the pleasure then only is it impure unclean. Of the pleasure alone is formed the ground for censure.