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and every instrument & every workman assisting in its
production, — or producing it in a more complete & enduring
shape is entitled to the honor of co-operation or of discovery

In the words Those literary works which have led to the efficient
application of the greatest instruments of happiness principle — those instructions — by which advances
have been made from the speculative & unemployed principle — towards
its use in the business of life must be considered among the most important auxiliaries
in the furtherance of the triumphs of felicity.

The earliest known mention of the principle is to be
found in the 3d Satire of Horace (book first) — written a few years
before the birth of Christ. The poet speaks of the opinions
held by the Stoics that all misdeeds (peccata) stand on the same level
in the scale of ill desert, — or rather should be visited with
the same amount of blame, — and thus answers pursues the topic

Queis paria esse fere placuit peccata, laborant
Quum ventum ad verum est: sensus moresque repugnant
Atque ipsa utilitas juste prope mater et æqui

Men's feelings, customs & utility itself, are, he declares, in
hostility with the Stoic theory. And he is right — the observation
as far as it goes, if not profound, is at least correct. It
proposes an end — the end to which justice & equity lead and
are subservient — and yet more, he avows that if our ideas of
justice & equity are correct right, they will have their source in
utility

At a somewhat later period than that in which
Horace flourished, Phædrus taught a somewhat similar
doctrine. Nisi utile est quod faceris, stulta est gloria
Your glory is foolish unless it is obtained by usefulness

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