The Promotion of General HappinessS. Sonnenschein & Company, 1890 - 186 стор. |
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The Promotion of General Happiness: A Utilitarian Essay Michael Macmillan Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2019 |
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abstinence alcohol amount ancient ancient Greece animals average happiness average health bad effects Brahmin caste charity civilised classes comparison consider consideration custom death death-rate diminution disease doubt drinkers Encyclopædia Britannica England enjoy euthanasia evil fact famine favour feeling felicific fellowmen free trade give happier Henry Sidgwick Herodotus high wages Hindu Hippocrates human race hunting immense improve the health increase of population increase the happiness India infanticide instance invention kill knowledge labour land large number laws less limited lives marriage means medical science misery modern moral nation natural natural selection ness object optimists ordinary pain perhaps pessimists Plato poor practice present productive of happiness promote happiness promote the happiness Pulayars reason regard result seclusion Shudras starvation strong drink struggle for existence suffer supposed suttee sympathy tarian taxation taxes Thomas Beckett tion total abstinence utilitarian Vaishya vegetarianism whole widows wine women Zoroaster
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Сторінка 22 - It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the...
Сторінка 16 - And it is without all controversy, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous : and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes.
Сторінка 35 - I sent for a cup of tea (a Chinese drink), of which I had never drank before.
Сторінка 55 - I esteem it the office of a physician not only to restore health, but to mitigate pain and dolors; /><.£„,»„„„. and not only when such mitigation may conduce to recovery, but when it may serve to make a fair and easy passage...
Сторінка 16 - ... tread surer by a guide than a seeing man can by a light. And it is without all controversy that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwart, and mutinous : and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes.
Сторінка 153 - Gie him strong drink until he wink, That's sinking in despair ; An' liquor guid to fire his bluid, That's prest wi' grief an' care ; There let him bouse, an' deep carouse, Wi' bumpers flowing o'er, Till he forgets his loves or debts, An
Сторінка 104 - There would be a great and increasing surplus revenue from the taxation of land values, for material progress, which would go on with greatly accelerated rapidity, would tend constantly to increase rent.
Сторінка 22 - ... man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind.
Сторінка 22 - ... of the day ; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of the human muscles ; it has accelerated motion ; it has annihilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, all friendly offices, all...
Сторінка 86 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best...