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History

the is with the ought to be

Appearances worn by
the greatest happiness principle
are the different shapes
of its progress.

History of the principle of Utility otherwise called
the Greatest-happiness principle — the history

Not altogether void of instruction or interest
may be the history of this principle, and the difference different
of the appearances descriptions under which worn by it which at different stages of
its progress. [Neither under the pen of Phaedrus Horace nor
under that of Horace Phaedrus did it present itself under wear the
imposing garb of a principle presiding over the whole
expanse of the most important among arts and sciences:
it presented itself in this respect upon a footing
resembling that of the aphorism by which ideas of all
other sorts are stated as having their source in the origin in the pure
various of bodily sensibility: senses. the loose hint given
which somewhere or other had dropt incidently dropt from the almost
The time at
unconscious pen of Aristotle which had casually dropt without being accompanied with
from while thinking of somewhat without a thought
about so much as the faintest concept of these important consequences
of the important consequences derivable from it having
been unimproved till taken up deduced from it by Locke, and employed
in the subservice of the universal empire usurped by
Logic under the command of this same Aristotle.

The year 1742 the year in which Hume's
Essays made their first appearance may be stated as the
year in which the precept under the name of the principle
of utility the principle in question made its first appearance.
On this occasion in the the connection between
the idea of utility and the idea of the several virtues and
vices is brought to view: so likewise are the ideas of desires emotions
affections passions and other psychological entities. But
to these are added "talents" and to every object which he presents
the force he gives is undefined and indistinct

On neither of these
occasions does it present
itself (so to speak)
in the character of a
full grown principle
capable of being
adopted and worshiped
by a of votaries
In neither instance
is it in any other
than as it were in
embryo state: or
residing as yet in
the Elysian fields among
the Illusions inimas
superarique ad lumen
which Anchera
in his situation of
Inspector General was
found by Aenias
passing under review

Its unheeded state
from those times down
to that of the next epoch
presents itself as resembling
that

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In both these instances
the principle in embryo only

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The principle unheeded
from that time to the
next epoch

Identifier: | JB/014/402/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1829-06-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	10-11
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	402	Info in main headings field	article
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
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