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PRINCI- 

 PLES OF 



UNION. 



REMARKS 



o If 



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doomed to be under continual pain, or overwhelmed with mifety 



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will fincerely endeavour to contribute to the fatisfadion of" another,., 

 if he finds himfelf more wretched upon every effort to increafe the 

 happinefs of his fellow creature. It mufl. therefore be the intereil 



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of each individual who wifhes to be happy, to promote the prof- 

 perity of the whole community to which he belongs ^ and from> 



horn he experts ad:s oi 



procal kindnefs 



that 



may 



d to 



improve his own happinefs. The happinefs of every human being, 

 living in a fociety, depends upon the follov/ing principles. 



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Man has an 



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body 



requiring 



food 



hab 



and drefs, as means conducive to its fupport ; and many other things 

 neceffary, in order to acquire thefe articles without great labour 



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and peril, or in other words, to inake life more agreeable and eafy , 

 thefe we would call the. ^rmdjfks ^physical happiness. 

 Secondly i Man is likewife a rational^ thinkings 



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ading being ^ his happinefs therefore r( 



and 



quir 



that he be able 



procure the means of improving his intellectual faculties- by inflrue- 

 tion, and to preferve the rights and privileges of a free agency, which 



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however, ought to be dired:ed by charity and benevolence towards, 



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the promotion of his own happinefs, and that of his fellow 

 creatures. In a word, he ought to be enabled to live in a manner 

 becoming the dignity of a rational and free being y and from thence 



we may colkx^ \h& principles of yio^Ai. happiness. 



hafily 



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