Social Statics, Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified: And the First of Them DevelopedWilliams and Norgate, 1868 - 523 páginas |
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... produces weariness . Hence , to have complete felicity is to have all the faculties exerted in the ratio of their several developments ; and an ideal arrangement of circumstances calculated to secure this constitutes the standard of ...
... produces weariness . Hence , to have complete felicity is to have all the faculties exerted in the ratio of their several developments ; and an ideal arrangement of circumstances calculated to secure this constitutes the standard of ...
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... produces increase of happiness ; but beyond which , it produces in the end more pain than pleasure . Where is that point ? Some appear to think that intellectual culture and the gratifications deriveable from it can hardly be carried ...
... produces increase of happiness ; but beyond which , it produces in the end more pain than pleasure . Where is that point ? Some appear to think that intellectual culture and the gratifications deriveable from it can hardly be carried ...
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... produces in us an approba- tion of the one , and a disgust toward the other ; and these readily beget beliefs that the one is virtuous , and the other vicious . Or , referring again to the illustration , we may say that as the desire to ...
... produces in us an approba- tion of the one , and a disgust toward the other ; and these readily beget beliefs that the one is virtuous , and the other vicious . Or , referring again to the illustration , we may say that as the desire to ...
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... when , out of sympathy for the negroes , 300,000 persons pledged themselves to abstain from all West - India produce ? But really it is absurd to argue the matter . The very assertors of this fixedness of human nature tacitly disown their.
... when , out of sympathy for the negroes , 300,000 persons pledged themselves to abstain from all West - India produce ? But really it is absurd to argue the matter . The very assertors of this fixedness of human nature tacitly disown their.
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... produce evil ; and you shall do that , and that , because they will produce good ? No matter that their founders erred in the attempt to refer each effect to its special cause , and so botched their sys- tems of morality ...
... produce evil ; and you shall do that , and that , because they will produce good ? No matter that their founders erred in the attempt to refer each effect to its special cause , and so botched their sys- tems of morality ...
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