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1829 June 10 2o
Article
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VI. Epoch the sixth 1768
Priestly on Government
VI Epoch the sixth. Year 1768. Date of Priestly's tract
intituled Essay on Government. In the page
of it, if memory is not deceitful on the character of
the only proper end of government. appears in Italics
the phrase the greatest happiness of the greatest number
Of the phrase the good effect is the changing substituting
to the equivocal appellation word utility the unequivocal
phrase of which happiness is the principal and characteristic sole
ingredient. In this change however consider
the whole of the improvement others have made
VII. Epoch the seventh 1776
Fragment on Government
VII. Epoch the seventh. Year 1776 Date of the publication of the Fragment
on Government. In this publication, the principle of
utility is under sense. Notes in hand, and fingers
up against the Original Contract. On this occasion, the language
of happiness so to speak is not substituted to that of
utility, the word utility being employed as well as the
word happiness, but the two languages are translated into
each other into one another, and the two represented as interconvertible.
This is all that on this occasion is done. The Neither the language
of utility nor that of happiness translated rendered into that of pain and
pleasure. No such things brought to view or the names of
any stocks of them or the name of any particular species of pleasure particular species either of pains or pleasures.
Scarcely as yet scarcely a mention with the word happiness the any such word as pain, or pleasure,
the appearance or happiness.
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