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Otherwise , his reasonings , if true at all , are true everywhere alike : his
speculations concern humanity at large , and are not confined to the hundred or
the bills of mortality . It is in moral as in physical magnitude . The little is seen best
near ...
Otherwise , his reasonings , if true at all , are true everywhere alike : his
speculations concern humanity at large , and are not confined to the hundred or
the bills of mortality . It is in moral as in physical magnitude . The little is seen best
near ...
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Mr . Bentham is not the first writer ( by a great many ) who has assumed the
principle of Utility as the foundation of just laws , and of all moral and political
reasoning : - his merit is , that he has applied this principle more closely and
literally ; that ...
Mr . Bentham is not the first writer ( by a great many ) who has assumed the
principle of Utility as the foundation of just laws , and of all moral and political
reasoning : - his merit is , that he has applied this principle more closely and
literally ; that ...
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If we attend to the moral man , the constitution of his mind will scarcely be found
to be built up of pure reason and a regard to consequences : if we consider the
criminal man ( with whom the legislator has chiefly to do ) it will be found to be
still ...
If we attend to the moral man , the constitution of his mind will scarcely be found
to be built up of pure reason and a regard to consequences : if we consider the
criminal man ( with whom the legislator has chiefly to do ) it will be found to be
still ...
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In ascertaining the rules of moral conduct , we must have regard not merely to the
nature of the object , but to the capacity of the agent , and to his fitness for
apprehending or attaining it . Pleasure is that which is so in itself : good is that
which ...
In ascertaining the rules of moral conduct , we must have regard not merely to the
nature of the object , but to the capacity of the agent , and to his fitness for
apprehending or attaining it . Pleasure is that which is so in itself : good is that
which ...
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Again , what would become of the Posthæc meminisse juvabit of the poet , if a
principle of fluctuation and reaction is not inherent in the very constitution of our
nature , or if all moral truth is a mere literal truism ? We are not , then , so much to
...
Again , what would become of the Posthæc meminisse juvabit of the poet , if a
principle of fluctuation and reaction is not inherent in the very constitution of our
nature , or if all moral truth is a mere literal truism ? We are not , then , so much to
...
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