1817 Nov r 19.

Not Paul

II. Doctrine

Ch. Asceticism

§.3. promoted by misappellation

§.3. — how promoted by inapposite nomenclature—by the word

impurity improperly applied

Applied to pleasure and pain, the

attributes pure and purity, with their

opposites impure and impurity have in

one sense a meaning which is at once determinate and rational. This sense is that in

which a pleasure is considered as pure in so far as it is

unattended with a feeling or feelings of the opposite description viz. pain or pains

/nature: viz. that of pain/: and in which in like manner a pain is considered as pure

in so far as it is unattended by a feeling or feelings of the opposite description

/nature/ viz. a pleasure or pleasures /that of pleasure/.

In this sense and in this alone are they employed by Bentham, in all his several

works.

See Introd. to the principles of Morals and Legislation: Traités de Legislation

penale et civile par Dumont: Springs of Action Table, &c.

Applied to pleasure of pain in any other sense they have not either of them any

determinate meaning: the use of them has it source /root/ in illusion, and illusion

in proportion to the influence exercised by the propositions /discourses/ in which

they are employed is the result.

In this indeterminate sense [though with equal propriety they might be either]

scarcely are they to be seen applied to pain: scarcely applied otherwise than to

pleasure.

Applied /On the occasion of the application made of them/ to pleasure, from a sort

/the idea/ of physical impurity, real or imaginary, a moral species of moral impurity

is imagined and ascribed to it: and from the moral impurity thus groundlessly

ascribed to it a pretence is made for endeavouring to subject to odium and even if

possible to punishment every person who shall have been or have sought to be a

partaker of it: and