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Page 110
... action , he proceeds to produce moral effects by the application of those moral causes which ex- perience has shown to be effectual . Some actions may be found to which we can attach no motives , but these are the effects of causes with ...
... action , he proceeds to produce moral effects by the application of those moral causes which ex- perience has shown to be effectual . Some actions may be found to which we can attach no motives , but these are the effects of causes with ...
Page 191
... action is often virtuous in proportion to the greatness of the personal calamity which the author willingly draws upon himself by daring to perform it . It is because an action produces an overbalance of pleasure or pain to sentient ...
... action is often virtuous in proportion to the greatness of the personal calamity which the author willingly draws upon himself by daring to perform it . It is because an action produces an overbalance of pleasure or pain to sentient ...
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... action with reference to their society the omission of the com- mission of this action is to be called criminal . If it be an action manifestly and most extensively beneficial such is nevertheless the denomination under which , by the ...
... action with reference to their society the omission of the com- mission of this action is to be called criminal . If it be an action manifestly and most extensively beneficial such is nevertheless the denomination under which , by the ...
Contents
THE GROWTH OF SHELLEYS MIND | 3 |
THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM | 37 |
A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS | 70 |
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action Age of Reason animals assert beauty believe benevolence called Catholic Emancipation cause character conception considered contemplation death degree Deism deist Deity Devil divine doctrines earth edition effect equal Essay eternal evil existence expression feel fragment genius Godwin Greek habits happiness heart human mind Hume Hume's idea imagination institutions Jesus Christ justice labor Laocoön letter liberty live Lord Lord Ellenborough Lucretius mankind Mary Shelley ment misery moral nation nature necessity Necessity of Atheism never object opinion pain Paine's paragraph passion Percy Bysshe Shelley perfect person philosophy Plato pleasure poem poet poetry political possess present principles produce prose punishment Queen Mab reason reform Refutation of Deism rendered ROGER INGPEN ruin seems sense sentiments Shelley Shelley's Note social society sophisms soul Spinoza spirit superstition supposed sympathy things thought tion Translation true truth tyrants universe virtue words writers