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<p>purpose: our business was to enquire not what people think, but what <lb/> they <hi rend="underline">ought to think</hi>. Thereupon the modern <del>gives</del> <add>kicks</add> the ancient <del>a kick in <lb/> the breech</del>, or spits in his face, or if he is strong enough | <p>purpose: our business was to enquire not what people think, but what <lb/> they <hi rend="underline">ought to think</hi>. Thereupon the modern <del>gives</del> <add>kicks</add> the ancient <del>a kick in <lb/> the breech</del>, or spits in his face, or if he is strong enough throws him behind<lb/> the fire. one can think of no other method of continuing the debate that is<lb/> at once natural and consistent.</p> | ||
<p>If you can persuade them both to take the principle of utility for their<lb/> guide, the discourse will take another turn: the result will be either that they<lb/> will agree; or that if they disagree it will be about some facts: and there is no<lb/> occasion for supposing either of them to be so unreasonable as to be angry with <lb/> his opponent for entertaining a different opinion from his own concerning a<lb/> matter of fact: they will separate with a resolution to make enquiries that<lb/> shall <add>tend to</add> clear up some of the facts, if they are in their nature capable of being <lb/> cleared up to the satisfaction of the enquiring party: of with <del><add>under</add></del> the <add><del>view</del></add> conviction<lb/> of the impossibility of coming to an agreement <del><add>in</add></del> with the resolution of each <lb/> acting up to his own opinion, satisfied at least in some degree with seeing<lb/> upon what the point of the dispute turns.</p> | <p>If you can persuade them both to take the principle of utility for their<lb/> guide, the discourse will take another turn: the result will be either that they<lb/> will agree; or that if they disagree it will be about some facts: and there is no<lb/> occasion for supposing either of them to be so unreasonable as to be angry with <lb/> his opponent for entertaining a different opinion from his own concerning a<lb/> matter of fact: they will separate with a resolution to make enquiries that<lb/> shall <add>tend to</add> clear up some of the facts, if they are in their nature capable of being <lb/> cleared up to the satisfaction of the enquiring party: of with <del><add>under</add></del> the <add><del>view</del></add> conviction<lb/> of the impossibility of coming to an agreement <del><add>in</add></del> with the resolution of each <lb/> acting up to his own opinion, satisfied at least in some degree with seeing<lb/> upon what the point of the dispute turns.</p> | ||
<p><del>I have said that</del> <add>Thus</add> the subject of their disagreement <add>when they came to a conclusion</add> <del>if they ended</del> would</ | <p><del>I have said that</del> <add>Thus</add> the subject of their disagreement <add>when they came to a conclusion</add> <del>if they ended</del> would<lb/> | ||
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MS Ethics, Vol. II
purpose: our business was to enquire not what people think, but what
they ought to think. Thereupon the modern gives kicks the ancient a kick in
the breech, or spits in his face, or if he is strong enough throws him behind
the fire. one can think of no other method of continuing the debate that is
at once natural and consistent.
If you can persuade them both to take the principle of utility for their
guide, the discourse will take another turn: the result will be either that they
will agree; or that if they disagree it will be about some facts: and there is no
occasion for supposing either of them to be so unreasonable as to be angry with
his opponent for entertaining a different opinion from his own concerning a
matter of fact: they will separate with a resolution to make enquiries that
shall tend to clear up some of the facts, if they are in their nature capable of being
cleared up to the satisfaction of the enquiring party: of with under the view conviction
of the impossibility of coming to an agreement in with the resolution of each
acting up to his own opinion, satisfied at least in some degree with seeing
upon what the point of the dispute turns.
I have said that Thus the subject of their disagreement when they came to a conclusion if they ended would
be
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