Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them DevelopedChapman, 1851 - 476 pages |
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... amount of enjoyment would be obtained . If " greatest happiness " is to be the rule , it becomes needful to decide which of these opinions is correct ; and further to determine the exact boundary between the use and abuse of every ...
... amount of enjoyment would be obtained . If " greatest happiness " is to be the rule , it becomes needful to decide which of these opinions is correct ; and further to determine the exact boundary between the use and abuse of every ...
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... amount of hap- piness each , from the adoption of the opposite course : then if greatest happiness ' is to be our ... amounts of grati- fication at stake on the two sides be equal . " " Exactly ; our axiom involves that . " " So then it ...
... amount of hap- piness each , from the adoption of the opposite course : then if greatest happiness ' is to be our ... amounts of grati- fication at stake on the two sides be equal . " " Exactly ; our axiom involves that . " " So then it ...
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... amount of change is going on . There cannot indeed be a more astounding instance of the tenacity with which men will cling to an opinion in spite of an overwhelming mass of adverse evidence , than is shown in this prevalent belief that ...
... amount of change is going on . There cannot indeed be a more astounding instance of the tenacity with which men will cling to an opinion in spite of an overwhelming mass of adverse evidence , than is shown in this prevalent belief that ...
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... amount of happiness is not so great as it would be were they devoid of those feelings . Hence , to compass greatest happiness , the human constitution must be such as that each man may perfectly fulfil his own nature , not only without ...
... amount of happiness is not so great as it would be were they devoid of those feelings . Hence , to compass greatest happiness , the human constitution must be such as that each man may perfectly fulfil his own nature , not only without ...
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... amount of isolated happiness is the greatest conceivable . But let these beings be so constituted as that each , in addition to the pleasurable emotions personally re- ceived by him , can sympathetically participate in the pleasurable ...
... amount of isolated happiness is the greatest conceivable . But let these beings be so constituted as that each , in addition to the pleasurable emotions personally re- ceived by him , can sympathetically participate in the pleasurable ...
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Page 108 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 127 - The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 207 - Commentaries, remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid derive all their force and all their validity and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Page 219 - State, and each and every of them who shall at any time hereafter be found in any part of this State, shall be and are hereby adjudged and declared guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony without benefit of clergy.
Page 65 - Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is a part of nature; all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower. The modifications mankind have undergone, and are still undergoing, result from a law underlying the whole organic creation; and provided the human race continues, and the constitution of things remains the same, those modifications must end in completeness.
Page 126 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Page 15 - It has been shown that the happiness of the individuals, of whom a community is composed, that is their pleasures and their security, is the end and the sole end which the legislator ought to have in view : the sole standard, in conformity to which each individual ought, as far as depends upon the legislator, to be made to fashion his behaviour.
Page 474 - It is not for nothing that he has in him these sympathies with some principles and repugnance to others. He, with all his capacities and aspirations and beliefs, is not an accident, but a product of the time. He must remember that, while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future ; and that his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly let die.
Page 123 - Separate ownership would merge into the joint-stock ownership of the public. Instead of being in the possession of individuals, the country would be held by the great corporate body — society. Instead of leasing his acres from an isolated proprietor, the farmer would lease them from the nation. Instead of paying his rent to the agent of Sir John or his Grace, he would pay it to an agent or deputy agent of the community. Stewards would be public officials instead of private ones, and tenancy the...
Page 323 - It seems hard that widows and orphans should be left to struggle for life or death. Nevertheless, when regarded not separately, but in connection with the interests of universal humanity, these harsh fatalities are seen to be full of the highest beneficence — the same beneficence which brings to early graves the children of diseased parents, and singles out the low-spirited, the intemperate, and the debilitated as the victims of an epidemic.