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action admit Æneid Allan Quatermain ANDREW LANG Bart believe C. J. LONGMAN Cabinet Edition capable Cardinal Newman character Cheap Edition Church cloth conduct considerations constitutes desire doctrine duty E. A. FREEMAN English equally Essays ethics evil existence expediency external sanctions faculties feeling fellow creatures give Greek habit happiness History hurt idea of justice Illus Illustrations individual injustice interest LANCELOT SPEED Library Edition M.A. Crown 8vo MANDELL CREIGHTON mankind Maps and Plans MAX MÜLLER means ment Micah Clarke mind Mode moral obligation moralists motive ness notion of justice object opinion origin pain person Philosophy Plates pleasure Poems Popular Edition principle of utility proof punishment question R. A. PROCTOR rational recognise Rider Haggard right and wrong Roman rule S.J. Crown Science sentiment social society supposed tarianism theory things Thomas Carlyle tion Translated University unjust utilitarian morality utilitarian standard Verse violate virtue vols Whist Woodcuts
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Page 53 - that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good
Page 58 - that to think of an object as desirable (unless for the sake of its consequences), and to think of it as pleasant, are one and the same thing!; and that to desire anything, except in proportion as the idea of it is pleasant is a physical and metaphysical impossibility. ! And
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Page 17 - the test of quality, and the rule for measuring it against quantity, being the preference felt by those who, in their opportunities of experience, to which must be added their habits of self-consciousness and self-observation, are best furnished with the means of comparison. \This, being, according to the utilitarian opinion, the -end of human
Page 16 - that standard is not the agent's own greatest happiness, but the greatest amount of happiness /altogether ; and if it may possibly be doubted whether / a noble character is always the happier for its nobleness, there can be no doubt that it makes other people happier, and that the world in general is . immensely a gainer by it.