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8 June 1816
Polit. Deontology
If then by any person whatsoever this all comprehensive standard
should be objected to rejected, and another set up in its place,
that other, – (if it be an intelligible one, and if it be any
thing better than his own or somebody-elses some arbitrary
individual will or his own or somebody else's ungrounded groundless
opinion set up under some unmeaning name), –
must be a standard of the same kind, only narrower
differing only in extent. In
In extent there are two opposite ways in
which and in which alone in the nature of the case it is possible
for it to be different: one is by being more extensive
the other by being less extensive.
It will be more extensive setting up a more extensive
standard of the same line were a man to say – nay – but
my standard is composed not of the happiness of the
greatest number of the individuals of whom the population
of any one country the country in question is composed but the
happiness of the whol some larger portion of the
population of the whole globe.
It will be setting up a more less extensive standard
of the same kind were a man to say – nay: but
my standard is composed not of the happiness of
this greater number but of the happiness of this or
that lesser number, being a portion of that greater.
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