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1908 Nov. 18

Logic

I.i. 6

general idea impart a power to that idea alike over
imaginary and over real behaviour, and that whether the performances
repeated be actual or merely imaginary, although the influence
of actual performance is generally more powerful, owing to a secondary
cause. It follows, therefore, that in a mind which has a
habit of reviewing behaviour, there will be a constant tendency toward [to?]
formation of habits which give rise to conduct that is approved on
reflexion, that is which excites a feeling of attraction. I have thus submitted
to your criticism a very slight and poverty stricken sketch of a complex phenomenon
that lies at the corner-stone of morality. There is one class of habits
which, "from the nature of things:, - as we say of what is true by logical necessity, -

1908 Nov. 18

Logic

I.i. 6

general idea impart a power to that idea alike over
imaginary and over real behaviour, and that whether the performances
repeated be actual or merely imaginary, although the influence
of actual performance is generally more powerful, owing to a secondary
cause. It follows, therefore, that in a mind which has a
habit of reviewing behaviour, there will be a constant tendency toward [to?]
formation of habits which give rise to conduct that is approved on
reflexion, that is which excites a feeling of attraction. I have thus submitted
to your criticism a very slight and poverty stricken sketch of a complex phenomenon
that lies at the corner-stone of morality. There is one class of habits
which, "from the nature of things:, - as we say of what is true by logical necessity, -