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The danger of putting forward any proposition
as a leading principle other than that which would maximize felicity consists in this — that if it coincide
with the greater principle it is supererogatory, — if it do not
coincide it is pernicious. Any principle that is not
subordinate to it may be opposed to it either diametrically
or collaterally. The ascetic principle if all-comprehensive
and consistent may be evidenced as one of direct opposition —
the ipse-dixit principle of all sorts may be ranked among
the indirect opponents. Qui non sub me contra me — He who
is not under me is against me, may be said with figurative
or metaphorical truth by the greatest happiness principle —
& with literal truth by every one of its partisans. And let
not this result declaration be taken as the result of arrogance of
disposition — it grows out of the nature of things, — & the
necessities of the case — Let it not be considered to bespeak
unkindness towards any advocate of the opposite opinions —
for such unkindness is neither its necessary, — nor even
its natural accompaniment.
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