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14 Jan y 1817

Necessity Cat

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Q.9 - But said you not that on every occasion man’s conduct is determined by his own conception of his agregate interest during life?

A. Yes: and future life may be included

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Q 10. What? in the case of a thief, ravisher, murderer, without prospect of impunity?

A. Yes for as in physics with few exceptions no body acts but were present so in psychics without exception no idea: a motive is an idea of < > pleasure or pain: not present such an idea can not operate: nor although present, but in proportion fierce will which the attention < > to it For example take it murderers case: motive say desire of revenge prospect of escape, none such may be the joint form of the idea of the pain produced by the supposed saying and the pleasure expected from the contemplation of the suffering producable to the injurer, that by the two the capacity of the mind shall be filled up: the idea of the < > punishment thus barred on, or if let in, prevented from preponderating by the weakness of the attention applied to it -

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Q.11. Speaking of a partnership you brought to view interests created by political moral and religious sanctions: in a private partnership in general one thing not sufficient to secure probity as so is partners: if so why not in this public d o? -

A. In a private partnership, yes -

But in this public d o.

I. Political sanction can not impose restored its force is perfectly at the command of the power-holders in question

II. So the moral for the most part -

III. In there < > when the religious is more apt to extend from or to act in a singular direction, then to be in and act in a proper direction -

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Q. 12 - In Monarchs case is it so clear that to this purpose the religious number is made quite < > if so what is the cause?

A. Causes let us now they would had as far wide of the mark: effects are matter of notoriety, indication may serve for proof -

Monarchs, on some through unbelief, rule given can have had no influence: witness Frederic, Bonaparte, as per their writings. question 3 - as report on others its influence has been rather adverse than conducive: witness not to speak of the French, the Spanish and the Italian

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Q. 13 - But sympathetic sound /social/ interest operating to that extent in which it embraces the whole of the community, you will not deny its existence, or its acting on this side? -

A. No - but < > you doing? -

1 In its most < > state this interest is community much weaker than self-regarding -

2 - In this case by reason of its extent it operates in a highly diluted state -

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Q.14 - Your notion is then that in the situation in question, on the occasion in question mall will in general be determined not only by his self regarding interest but by that part of it in which the interests < > by the < > or moral and the religious sanctions are not comprized (viz. by his own conception which as above < > to be taken for correct) -

A. - Yes - that any rate individuals unknown, this is so propable that any arrangement grounded on any other supposition would be unanswerable -

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Q.15 Are not here great difficulties? -

1 - Estimating relative forms of the portion of personal interest in the one part the share in the universal interest together together with that < > by sympathy for the remainder

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and that erected by the tutilory sanctions on the other -

2 Ascertaining the agreement or disagreement between the rate value of the several interests and the man’s own conception of it -