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1822 Jany 28
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No otherwise than by reference to the greatest-happiness
principle can epithets such as good and bad evil or
good and evil bad be expressive of any quality in the act or
other object to which they are applied: say an act of an
individual: say an act of government, or a law, or other
a measure of government, a system at of government, a form of government.
Without But for this reference all they designate is the
state of mind on the part of him who speaks or writes in whose discourse they
about it are employed.
When in When the rationale in question, with In so far No otherwise than in so far as When and in proportion as, this principle is taken
this principle for its ground, has been brought to view, for employed as the standard of reference
then, for the first time and thence forward for ever will the import of those same adjuncts
same perpetually employed and primarily important adjuncts
considered as indicative of qualities belonging to the objects
they are applied to, be determinate. and established first and established.
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