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<p>If human beings were so circumstanced if such were the<lb/>condition of human beings that the happiness of no one being<lb/>comes in competition with that of any others, that is to say<lb/>if the happiness of each or of any one could receive increase to<lb/>an unlimited amount <del>with it</del> without being the effect of producing<lb/>decrease in the happiness of any others, then the above<lb/>exposition might serve without limitation or explanation.<lb/>But in every occasion the happiness of every individual is<lb/>coming in <add>liable to come into</add> competition with the happiness of every other. If for<lb/>example in a house containing two individuals, for a space of<lb/>a month there be a supply of food barely sufficient to continue <del>the</del><lb/>for that space of time the existence of one of them, not merely the<lb/><del>existence</del> happiness of each but the existence of each <del>comes</del> <add>stands</add> in<lb/>competition with, and is incompatible with the existence of the<lb/>other.<lb/></p><p>Hence it is, that to serve for all occasions, to the expression <add>instead of saying</add> <lb/>the greatest happiness of all it becomes necessary to substitute <add>say</add><lb/>the expression the greatest happiness of the greatest number<lb/></p><p>If however instead of the word <hi rend="underline">happiness</hi> the word <hi rend="underline">interest</hi><lb/>is employed, the phrase maximal interest may be employed as<lb/>corresponding as well <add>indifferently</add> to the interest of the greatest number as<lb/>to the interest of all.<lb/></p><note>Insert <gap/> between the import of the word <hi rend="underline">happiness</hi> and | <p>If human beings were so circumstanced if such were the<lb/>condition of human beings that the happiness of no one being<lb/>comes in competition with that of any others, that is to say<lb/>if the happiness of each or of any one could receive increase to<lb/>an unlimited amount <del>with it</del> without being the effect of producing<lb/>decrease in the happiness of any others, then the above<lb/>exposition might serve without limitation or explanation.<lb/>But in every occasion the happiness of every individual is<lb/>coming in <add>liable to come into</add> competition with the happiness of every other. If for<lb/>example in a house containing two individuals, for a space of<lb/>a month there be a supply of food barely sufficient to continue <del>the</del><lb/>for that space of time the existence of one of them, not merely the<lb/><del>existence</del> happiness of each but the existence of each <del>comes</del> <add>stands</add> in<lb/>competition with, and is incompatible with the existence of the<lb/>other.<lb/></p><p>Hence it is, that to serve for all occasions, to the expression <add>instead of saying</add> <lb/>the greatest happiness of all it becomes necessary to substitute <add>say</add><lb/>the expression the greatest happiness of the greatest number<lb/></p><p>If however instead of the word <hi rend="underline">happiness</hi> the word <hi rend="underline">interest</hi><lb/>is employed, the phrase maximal interest may be employed as<lb/>corresponding as well <add>indifferently</add> to the interest of the greatest number as<lb/>to the interest of all.<lb/></p><note>Insert <gap/> between the import of the word <hi rend="underline">happiness</hi> and the import<lb/>of the word <hi rend="underline">interest</hi><lb/></note><pb/> | ||
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1822 Aug. 12 Constitut. Code 4
If human beings were so circumstanced if such were the
condition of human beings that the happiness of no one being
comes in competition with that of any others, that is to say
if the happiness of each or of any one could receive increase to
an unlimited amount with it without being the effect of producing
decrease in the happiness of any others, then the above
exposition might serve without limitation or explanation.
But in every occasion the happiness of every individual is
coming in liable to come into competition with the happiness of every other. If for
example in a house containing two individuals, for a space of
a month there be a supply of food barely sufficient to continue the
for that space of time the existence of one of them, not merely the
existence happiness of each but the existence of each comes stands in
competition with, and is incompatible with the existence of the
other.
Hence it is, that to serve for all occasions, to the expression instead of saying
the greatest happiness of all it becomes necessary to substitute say
the expression the greatest happiness of the greatest number
If however instead of the word happiness the word interest
is employed, the phrase maximal interest may be employed as
corresponding as well indifferently to the interest of the greatest number as
to the interest of all.
Insert between the import of the word happiness and the import
of the word interest
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