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Consideranda
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Subjects of consideration on this occasion, are
the following —
Pleasures and pains, happiness and unhappiness,
good and evil. — Ends and means
rules and principles, — axioms of pathology physical
and mental or say psychological, observation and
experiment, of these many are mutually correlative;
all are intimately connected and give and receive
explanation to and from each other. —
In regard to
Good and Evil
consider .—
Happiness is a word employed to denote the
sum of the pleasures experienced during that quantity
of time which is under consideration deduction made
or not made of the quantity of pain experienced
during that same quantity of time.
Unhappiness is a word employed to denote
the sum of pains experienced during the quantity of
time which is under consideration, deduction made
or not made of the quantity of pleasure experienced
during that same quantity of time.
Good is a word employed to denote either
pleasure or exemption from pain and the cause
efficient and more or less effective of either. —
Evil is a word employed to denote either pain
or loss of pleasure or a cause efficient, more or less
effective of either. —
In regard to
Good and Evil
&c
End is a word employed to denote a good the
the prospect of eventually experiencing which as operates as a motive
tending to produce at the hands of any sensitive being
the some good which is an object of his own desire and hope.
Means
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