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Curious are the exertns. made by men of the most
powerful talents & for their times the most comprehensive minds
to shut & keep shut their eyes against the light of human
reason, universal experience & common sense.
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27.
In J.B.'s mind, the word
utility is associated with
happss. principle, owing
to the use made of it
by Hume & Helvetius,
also Horace.
No wonder that in Mr. Bentham's mind the word utility
became originally and for so great a length of time continued to
be associated with the idea at present expressed by
denominatn. the greatt. happs. principle.
The works of Hume & Helvetius were, in these
the idea was originally blended in his mind. But
various passages of classical writers were eagerly embraced
as they happened to present themselves & contributed to
strengthen the hold taken by it.
says Horace: by these words this principle
was laid down in form as furnishd the science of
morals & judicature.
says somewhere.
It
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