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COMPARED 



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REMARKS 



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THE 



fiftible erupt 



of their paffions in the end ferve to foften their 



jfiercenefs and ferocity. Canibalifm, one of the moft inhumane 

 and atrocious cuftoms, is not introduced into large focieties by want 



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and hunger, but by the moft unnatural and violent fpirit of re- 



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venge, and mufl after fome time be laid alide as a cuftom which is 



inconfiflent with itfelf. 



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In order to judge of the happinefsof man- 



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kind, it is necelTary to define the various kinds of happinefs they 

 are capable of, in regard to their different faculties and flate. 



The 



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mofl prefling wants which are to be fatisfied firft, are food, habita- 



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tion, and raiment ; and an eafy rnethod of procuring them, 



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ther with the advantage of being free from bodily pain, is the firil 

 ^vmci^lQ of phyjical happinefs. The means of improving the intel- 



ledual faculties, and of preferving the rights and privileges of a free 



agency in man, without interfering with the happinefs of othei 

 form the principles of moral happinefs. The advantages arifins fro 



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the union of men in fociety, and a certain undifturbed enjoyment 

 of phyfical and moral happinefs, in conjundion with others, form 

 the principles oi civil or facial felicity. Each ftate requires certain 



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duties without the fulfilling of which^ no happinefs can be ob- 

 tained. And the various kinds of happinefs have likewife 



degrees, in the number and 



ety of enjoy men 



long and undiflurbed duration, and in the influence they have upon 

 the happinefs of others. Nature alone promotes in fome climates 

 thefe various kinds and degrees of happinefs ; in fome nature afilfled 



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