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Introduct. Dimensions of Happinessthe introduction to it in of this.
Note
many probably be here objected that the
The reasoning I can conceive such to
method of
deleted textsay which happens the happiness of a state
to consist in the happiness of all the individuals
in it summed up together is fallacious:deleted text
after over, each man's quantityT'is in man to talk of adding quantities, which, portion
after the addition will continue from every otheras they were
before; that you might as well
to add 20 apples to 20 pears, which after you
One man's happiness will never be another
man's happiness: a gain to one man is no gain to another.
will not be a single apple the more, nor a single pear the more
had I one wants be les of any one any of
, but 20 of each and just as there was before: that therefore in theto continue , the man
with the ten millions of degrees of happiness
being entirely distinct from every one of those
with 5 only, taking one man out of the first
state to put against this one man in the second state,
the quantity of happiness in the latter would
be in fact but half of that of the that of each
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man in the one being but the half of that of any
man in the other
If a legislator
desires and is
the happiness of all
the in the
state, if he be such
an one as all the
whole state is either
for
one man's happiness
be the same to
him as another man's: it is not the answer to this is that in all political reasonings
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