 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
 | Charles George Herbermann - 1913 - 880 pages
...Bentham in the opening of his "Principles of Morals and Legislation" (1789): "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 what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 606 pages
...distinction is made, and ignored, in the arresting paragraph that opens the work: 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... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 552 pages
...distinction is made, and ignored, in the arresting paragraph that opens the work : Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point ont what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the... | |
 | Thomas Verner Moore - 1915 - 184 pages
...opposite by pain. These he described as the supreme masters of mankind. "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... | |
 | 1918 - 718 pages
...Works ; but the first and most famous version remains the best to quote.2 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1919 - 504 pages
...mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters — pleasure and pain. It is for these alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.' These, the opening sentences of Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation, lay down the corner-stone... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1920 - 400 pages
...upon experience of the feelings of pleasure and pain: "Nature has placed mankind under the guidance of two sovereign masters; Pain and Pleasure. It is...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. " — Dentology, Vol. I., page 137; Jeremy Bentham (1748-1838). 1 1 Conscience ascribed to both reason... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - 1920 - 418 pages
...distinction is made, and ignored, in the arresting paragraph that opens the work: " 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... | |
 | Zenas Clark Dickinson - 1922 - 328 pages
...of human behavior. They are, as he says, the ' sovereign masters of mankind.' "It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do," his opening paragraph states. He complains in his introduction that philosophers, including Aristotle,... | |
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