"The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure."

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"The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure."

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"The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell."

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"Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved."

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