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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... whilst a Swiss is miserable without one . Progress is necessary to the well - being of the Anglo - Saxons ; on the other hand the Esquimaux are content in their squalid poverty , have no latent wants , and are still what they were in ...
... whilst a Swiss is miserable without one . Progress is necessary to the well - being of the Anglo - Saxons ; on the other hand the Esquimaux are content in their squalid poverty , have no latent wants , and are still what they were in ...
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... whilst those forming the smaller party will receive the same amount of happiness each , from the adoption of the opposite course : then if ' greatest happiness ' is to be our guide , it must follow , must it not , that the larger party ...
... whilst those forming the smaller party will receive the same amount of happiness each , from the adoption of the opposite course : then if ' greatest happiness ' is to be our guide , it must follow , must it not , that the larger party ...
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... whilst it is the office of an instinct to induce a certain kind of action , and not to perceive . But in the foregoing arguments , motor and percipient functions are attributed to the same agent , The objection seems a serious one ; and ...
... whilst it is the office of an instinct to induce a certain kind of action , and not to perceive . But in the foregoing arguments , motor and percipient functions are attributed to the same agent , The objection seems a serious one ; and ...
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... whilst of extravagance he has an absolute horror . Whatever adds to his store seems to him good : what- ever takes from it , bad . And should a passing gleam of generosity lead him on some special occasion to open his purse , he is ...
... whilst of extravagance he has an absolute horror . Whatever adds to his store seems to him good : what- ever takes from it , bad . And should a passing gleam of generosity lead him on some special occasion to open his purse , he is ...
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... whilst the decisions of this moral sense upon the complex cases referred to it are inaccurate and often contradictory , it may still be capable of generating a true fundamental intuition , which can be logically unfolded into a ...
... whilst the decisions of this moral sense upon the complex cases referred to it are inaccurate and often contradictory , it may still be capable of generating a true fundamental intuition , which can be logically unfolded into a ...
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