...observed results of conduct, and completely attainable only by deducting, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. With the exception of the word *' necessarily,'' I have no dissent to express from this doctrine; and...

...; and I conceive it to be the business of Moral . Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily...tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce nnhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct ; and are to...

...things/; andf^I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily...tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce nnhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as \ laws of conduct ; and are to...

...only to ascertain results, but to explain and predict them ; " to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions of existence what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to unhappinesa. " Rational utilitarianism ' ' does not take welfare for its immediate object of pursuit,...

...only to ascertain results, but to explain and predict them ; " to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions of existence what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to unhappiness. " Rational utilitarianism "does not take welfare for its immediate object of pursuit,...

...examination of its subject-matter will only confirm them. It has to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions of existence what kinds of action necessarily...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. It is at the outset assumed, in connexion with a hypothesis framed to fit a wholly different class...

...things; and I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily...tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce nnhappiness."* That the science thus sketched in outline would, when realized, be useful, there can...

...admits, there is a possible science of which it is the aim " to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions of existence what kinds of action necessarily...produce happiness and what kinds to produce unhappiness " ; and we have need of such a science. For morality differs in different ages and nations ; and actual...

...things ; and I conceive it to be the business of moral science to deduce, /)wn the laws oflifeand the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily...are to be recognised as laws of conduct, and are to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness and misery.' * Mr. Spencer's ethics,...

...things, and I conceive it to be the business of moral science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kind to produce unhappiuess. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognised as laws of conduct,...