 | 1795 - 612 pages
...it : « Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two fovereign mafters, fa;a and ffeaj'urc. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we (hail do. On the one hand ihr ftandard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of caufes and effects,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 pages
...prend dans ses jugements conseil que de son inte're't.' — Helve'tius De V Esprit, discours ii , ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. . . . The principle of utility recognises this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1823 - 332 pages
...sovereign masters, pain and iwp'rin'a'n pleasure. It is for them atone to point out what Pfeasure. we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall...the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say,... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1823 - 326 pages
...sovereign masters, pain and fypea™e^n pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what pleasure. we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall...the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say,... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1833 - 378 pages
...first paragraphs of his " Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation," he maintains that "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...the standard of right and wrong, on the other, the chain of causes and effects are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say,... | |
 | 1833 - 492 pages
...and comprehensive view of the great practical principle which directed all Mr. Bentham's efforts. " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure : these two masters govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think. It is for these sovereign... | |
 | 1833 - 490 pages
...and comprehensive view of the great practical principle which directed all Mr. Bentham's efforts. " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure : these two masters govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think. It is for these sovereign... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 334 pages
...INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGISLATION. CHAPTER I. Or THE PRINCIPLE OP UTILITY. UATDEE has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign...the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say,... | |
 | Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - 274 pages
...his opinions on religion. He begins his " Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation" thus: — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance...to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." * It cannot fail to strike every reader of common intelligence, that, in thus dogmatically laying the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1891 - 580 pages
...aholished, ' must ' reigns without restriction ; for it is the same writer who magisterially asserts that ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is lor them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one... | |
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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. 
