 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.  History of the Christian Church - Page 213by Henry Clay Sheldon - 1894Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1901 - 664 pages
...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.' The legislator, therefore, must annex pains or pleasures to those classes of actions which he wishes... | |
 | Oskar Kraus - 1901 - 162 pages
...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. W. I Principles. weise der Liebbarkeit zu dem der Liebenswürdigkeit anderer Objekte ausscr der Lust... | |
 | Oskar Kraus - 1901 - 162 pages
...in some shap can operate in the character of a motive, W. I, 46. Ferner: 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. W. I Principles. 3)... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1901 - 678 pages
...contrary tendency. This is solved by an appeal to the universal motive. ' 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.' The legislator,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1901 - 662 pages
...contrary tendency. This is solved by an appeal to the universal motive. ' 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.' The legislator,... | |
 | Warner Fite - 1903 - 406 pages
...philosophical motive in Spencer, expressed, of course, in more modern terms. " 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. On the one hand the... | |
 | William Warrand Carlile - 1904 - 318 pages
...placed mankind under the government 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. . . . They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think." * We know that this theory, in... | |
 | 1902 - 396 pages
...require but a few citations to recall them perfectly to all. "Nature," says Bentham, "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."t The gist of the... | |
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1907 - 396 pages
...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." The legislator, therefore, must annex pains or pleasures to those classes of actions which he wishes... | |
 | Alfred Tuttle Williams - 1907 - 108 pages
...words of the Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation that, "nature has placed •man 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. On the one hand the... | |
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