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LAWS in General & Cases in respect of expedient Good & Evil mixed in all Crimes as well as Laws made against them. INTROD. Principle of Utility — Defended.
Note confirmation Nothing indeed can [serve to prove more effectually] as be a more effectual proof of the verity of this my principal denomination [This cannot indeed be a stronger proof of the
verity of the principle, those [the this observation] that]]
Indeed whenever they attempt to produce any
thing argument that has any pretensions to the name
of a proof that is that puts the question upon an issue of fact they involuntarily insensibly but necessarily
betray themselves into [an application to] a
reliance on and acknowledgement of this
principle. All besides it is a meer opinion
brought up by a vitious circle repetition repetend in proof of
an opinion.
Nothing can be There cannot be a more striking circum
consideration in confirmation of the verity of any principle
than this involuntary homage this remarkable circumstance which men
pay to this at the very time they are endeavouring
to think to contest it's authority.
It is this they always come to whensoever
they cease to desire their own words to be
taken for the matter in dispute.
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introd. princ. of utility defended |
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