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Of the Principle of Utility

Introd. Ch. 1
to talk of the good interest of the community without understanding
what is the good interest of the individual. The good of the individual
is either the pleasure of the individual, or (what comes to
the same thing) the cause or instrument of such pleasure
or (what again comes to the same thing)the cause or instrument
by means of which he is enabled to avoid pain. [the a
means of his avoiding pain.]

Those who cry out against pleasure, as such, know not Pleasure in no case to be reprobated
what it is they say. They swerve manifestly from the principle
of utility. Upon that principle the most sordid pleasure
which the vilest malefactor ever reaped from his crime
(suppose it but pleasure) would be to be reprobated,
if it stood alone. This impregnable truth has been recognised
by one of the severest most severe of moralists + +Maupertines Essay de Morale

This [principle] then I assume as a postulatum: and
this, in matter of censure and approbation, is the only
postulatum: I do assume. Whatever matter of that nature
occurs during the course of this work is bit a development
of this principle. These then are the two standards
to one or other of which I refer in everything I advance.
For matter of fact I appeal to the experience
or observation of those within whose cognizance it lies. For
matter of censure or approbation I appeal solely to this
principle. The principle such as it is, is none not of my own
invention. The merit of discovering it is none of mine.
The

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