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To himself he proposed suggested it — & to others he recommended
it not only as an End to be proposed, — but as a means of
attaining that end, & as a motive to impel men to its pursuit.
It was to him a storehouse of arguments, — objects, — instruments
and rewards.
He did not leave the his purpose clouded in a vague, — misty —
and general phraseology, — but drew forth from the regions
of happiness & misery all those pains pleasures & pains of which
happiness and misery are composed, — and of which man's
nature is suceptible. In the pleasures which the human
being can enjoy, — in the pains from [which the human
being can be exempted he found the elements of the science
he taught. To calculate their number, — to weigh their
value, — to estimate their results was the business of inquiry in
which he was perpetually engaged, — and to gather up the
greatest possible quantity of pleasure, — & felicity for every man, whether by alleviating
suffering or increasing enjoyments, — was the great business
of his life.
These in fact a manufacture of human happiness
These pains & pleasures, in fact, when applied
to the business of government whether legislative or administrative
are but the so many elementary parts of the stock employable
by rulers in the manufacture of human happiness
The history of the greatest happiness Utilitarian Principle
is the history of contributions to the stock of happiness, — it is
the history of what has been done from time to time to
improve and perfect the operations out of which felicity enjoyment
is the result. The finished work is felicity — and every
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