Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them DevelopedChapman, 1851 - 476 páginas |
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... rules for the control of human beings - fitted for the regulation of the best , as well as the worst members of the race - applicable , if true , to the guid- ance of humanity in its highest conceivable perfection . Govern- ment ...
... rules for the control of human beings - fitted for the regulation of the best , as well as the worst members of the race - applicable , if true , to the guid- ance of humanity in its highest conceivable perfection . Govern- ment ...
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... rules , such rules , were they never so philosophical , and the benefits of obeying them never so ob- vious , would form but a very inefficient substitute . Or , in- stead of that powerful affection by which men are led to nourish ...
... rules , such rules , were they never so philosophical , and the benefits of obeying them never so ob- vious , would form but a very inefficient substitute . Or , in- stead of that powerful affection by which men are led to nourish ...
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... rule . All know that appetite does not invariably guide men aright in the choice of food , either as to quality or quantity . Neither can any maintain that its dictates are uniform , when reminded of those unnumbered differences in the ...
... rule . All know that appetite does not invariably guide men aright in the choice of food , either as to quality or quantity . Neither can any maintain that its dictates are uniform , when reminded of those unnumbered differences in the ...
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... rule should be ' the greatest happiness to the greatest number . ' " " Such is our opinion , " answers the petitioning plebeian . " Well now , let us see what your principle involves . Sup- pose men to be , as they very commonly are ...
... rule should be ' the greatest happiness to the greatest number . ' " " Such is our opinion , " answers the petitioning plebeian . " Well now , let us see what your principle involves . Sup- pose men to be , as they very commonly are ...
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... Rule of Right , " " Natural Justice , " " Law of Nature , " " Law of Reason , " " Right Reason , " & c . Unsuccessful as these writers have been in the endeavour to develope a philoso- phical morality , all of them , if the foregoing ...
... Rule of Right , " " Natural Justice , " " Law of Nature , " " Law of Reason , " " Right Reason , " & c . Unsuccessful as these writers have been in the endeavour to develope a philoso- phical morality , all of them , if the foregoing ...
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