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But in both Horace & Phædrus the mention of Utility
as a motive to conduct appears rather accidental than otherwise
Neither of them app seems to have understood the value & importance
of the principle doctrine they he put forward — In neither case does it occupy
the position of a great & important principle — It was
adopted by no sect — it was avowed followed — worshipped by no votaries
It was wholly in an embryo state — It had no influential —
no presiding power — it had not obtained a place in the
Elysian fields among these aphorisms, written in letters of light
which Æneas found Anchises passing under review. Unvalued
& unheeded it remained — like the Aristotelian truth which dropped by chance from the heedless pen of Aristotle that
all ideas have their origin in the senses — two magnificent
principles where consequences were hidden from the perception
of many, — many generations. Locke was the first to perceive
discern the value of an observation, whose development
enabled him to subvert the universal empire usurped
by so called logic under the command of Aristotle
himself, — while David Hume in 1742 proclaimed the gave
importance of the principle of to the word Utilitarian Hume Utility.

Hume's Essays gave to recognised Utility, the
name, — the of as a principle. He employed the word with
much indistinctness, sometimes representing the idea of
usefulness — usefulness considered as conduciveness to and end no matter what —
sometimes as synonymous with conduciveness to happiness
as [an end. On no occasion does he intimate that
the idea of happiness is to be inseparably connected with the
idea of utility. He speaks of it as "inhering" to "a machine —

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