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Dr Priestley published his Essay on Government in 1768.<lb/> | <p>Dr Priestley published his Essay on Government in 1768.<lb/> | ||
He there introduced — in Italics - as the only reasonable & proper<lb/> | He there introduced — in Italics - as the only reasonable & proper<lb/> | ||
end of government "the greatest happiness of the greatest number'<lb/> | end of government "the greatest happiness of the greatest number'<lb/> | ||
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represented the principal end, — the capital, — the characteristic<lb/> | represented the principal end, — the capital, — the characteristic<lb/> | ||
ingredient. It took possession by a single phrase of every<lb/> | ingredient. It took possession by a single phrase of every<lb/> | ||
thing that had hitherto been done. | thing that had hitherto been done. It went in fact<lb/> | ||
beyond all notions that had preceded it — It took up not<lb/> | |||
only happiness — <del><gap/></del> made that happiness diffusive —<lb/> | |||
it associated it with the majority — with the many.<lb/> | |||
Dr Priestley's Pamphlet was written, as most of his productions<lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline"><foreign>currente calamo</foreign></hi> — hastily & earnestly</p> | |||
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"somehow or other" to use the words <del><gap/></del> <add>taken</add> from Mr<lb/> | |||
Bentham's lips when he was <del><gap/></del> <add>talking over with</add> the writer what he<lb/> | |||
called the Adventures of the Greatest Happiness Principle — its<lb/> | |||
"parentage, — birth, — education, — travels, — and history" — Somehow<lb/> | |||
or other</p> | |||
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Dr Priestley published his Essay on Government in 1768.
He there introduced — in Italics - as the only reasonable & proper
end of government "the greatest happiness of the greatest number'
It was a great improvement upon the word Utility — It
represented the principal end, — the capital, — the characteristic
ingredient. It took possession by a single phrase of every
thing that had hitherto been done. It went in fact
beyond all notions that had preceded it — It took up not
only happiness — made that happiness diffusive —
it associated it with the majority — with the many.
Dr Priestley's Pamphlet was written, as most of his productions
currente calamo — hastily & earnestly
"somehow or other" to use the words taken from Mr
Bentham's lips when he was talking over with the writer what he
called the Adventures of the Greatest Happiness Principle — its
"parentage, — birth, — education, — travels, — and history" — Somehow
or other
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