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18 Sept. 1814 1 Logic or Ethics Ch. 1 Propriety Deontology 1
Ch. 1 Of Propriety, and its connection with {the principles of} Utility.
Even under the dominion of the principle of Utility taken in the sense so often explained, the word utility will not be has not been with its conjugation Useful and usefulness [+] [+] Useless and Uselessness and Inutility has not been found to be conveniently adapted to all occasions in which application of the principle of utility to practice comes may come to be made.
I. In some instances the expression will be apt to appear too weak: not sufficiently expressive of the force of possessed by the obligation which in those cases appears to have place.
It is useless to commit murder, rape, or it would be useful to prevent it: and so in regard to rape, incendiarism and other acts which in perpect of the magnitude of the mischief to which others are apt to give birth, are wont to be denominated and dealt with on the footing of heinous crimes.— Against To any such application of the word utility and or its conjugates, the mind of most readers would be apt to recalistrate.
II. Another objection obstacle to the employing on the all-comprehensive employment of the word utility on all occasions is, the decision which it will be seen to involve in the question concerning in relation to the different principles in regard to of morality morals the different sources of morality. The Upon the two rival principles to that of utility, viz. asceticism and
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