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mttk& ' m + stim # i tiie pteiisiire of easywspiiattoti i&xrnspeakable * These fcoi&ideratioas , I conffess , appear little , to prove the i > rojrtM&oh } tftrtit will be easy , no < ioiu 1 > t , for hia * to whom they do
not camexvrth convincing evidence , to point out that p leaswable emt >* tfbtf , Which is either not elearly referable to " cotitrast , of wbict * would esfisft rft aft , had no other impres $ iori / thw that fVoin which it proceeds , been ever kjiovrn .
Cor . 1 st . The pains of the sen - tietit creation are n £ ces $ ary ~ id order to produce ideas of pleasure . This , like all other corollaries , can stand upon no other demon , stration than that which
establishes its proposition ^ and is to acquit itself to the understanding , dimply by a comparison between its own terms and that of its pritifcipah It may be ' proper to reifnark , however , that the production of pleasurerin this instance is purely
mechanical , requiring no exertion of intellect , and in fact little else than that the subject should be a sen - tient Ueing ; neither does it infer a future existence . But where a C ^ use of pain h * 6 violent as to produce dismemberment or
destruction , it would seem either to fi 6 | Tit io ^ future state of exiiten ci ? y jrhgre ft may produce its beneficial effect > or to impugn the infinite po wet of Deity r for if this Be estabtished ^ I hold his infinite ^^ evdknce i ^ ci pssarily inferred ,
k $ i ^<< tf jcpuxse , whatever militates agfti ^ n&t nis infinite beiifeVbleiftre is ^ m ^ m ^^ & 4 ^ MC ^ i ** - o JW ^ r . 2 < k TheJ > a « D 8 of thfr in-* # l % nt tteatTon , irt conbequence ^ ^ M ^ I ^ f ^ A ^ * ^ WEik . Jim w j ?^»? s f
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stant forerunoerSj jvill coix ^ e ultimately to change tbeir cbarac | er in tbe mind of the intelligent beingr so as to make pleasure the J > ecessary result of every possible ipipression . In this corollary , without a ^ u-
mmgscosation as a certain passport to endless existence , it is simply maintained , that where indefinite duration is extended to
a sentient beings capable of recollecting its emotions and of exploring their causes ; pleasure will tend ultimately to be the result of all its impressions .
This , I confess , does not appear to nae , to be beyond thq power pi the associating principle , but " rather to be i « s natural effect , cou « sidering that unless the pain $ 4 » ave place , the pleasures will < HQt ^
follow ; it reconcile * the ^ e ^ ent motley appearance of things with the attributes of injSnite g ^ o 4 ^ es $ and power in the Supreme Ueing ; and rn the means which he attopts for procuring the happy result ,
he exhibits himself a » a wise > and designing agent , as much a $ ia any part of the animal ot v ^ gei ^ ble economy * Resignatiou will # ben deserve the name of rational , , aad
the phrase of seeing eve * yf 0 iing in God , and God ia every tfeifig , " instead of an unmeaning ebullition of over-heated devotion , N tn » y be the predicate of a state future indeed , yet possible , if wot [
Certain . * ZERO GtasgoW ) Jaw . 10 , 181 iJ .
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Theological Query * Alk > w me to submit the following query to your theological correspondents ol every cteotfftlinatimx ^ ls it to \? Q eoiminlttecl «• m *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/17/
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