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Introd. Ch. 1 Of the Principle of Utility

The Principle of Utility, what
a man's [anyone's] mind which pronounces that an institution
ought or ought not to be established according as it is found appears to be
conducive or not conducive to the good interest of the community.
The phrase "principle of utility though looser and more obscure
is for the convenience of discourse preferred as
being shorter to that which is here adopted to explain it.

Utility how to be investigated
Wherein then consists the good of the community?
A question this which might is to be answered not by vague
declamation, not by point and metaphor, but by minute
analysis and sober estimation. We shall endeavour then to
travel on slowly and circumspectly, not with Rhetoric
but rather with Metaphysics and Mathematics for our guides.
We shall endeavour to catch, as much as possible, the spirit
of the two last named sciences, and, as much as possible
to avoid the language.

The good of the community, what
The good interest of the community is one of the most general
phrases expressions that occur in the phraseology of Morals: no wonder
that the meaning of it is often lost. When it has a
meaning, I conceive it is to be this. The community is a
fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are
considered as being as it were its members. The good of
the community then is - what? the sum of the goods (if this interests
and may be for for although
) of the several members that compose it. It is in vain
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