 They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire: but in reality he will remain subject to...  The Contemporary Review - Page 5161879Full view - About this book
 | William Stanley Jevons - Economics - 1879 - 434 pages
...and qualification, but they are too grand and too full of truth to be omitted. ' Nature/ he says s, ' has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign...instead of reason, in darkness instead of light.' In connection with this passage we may take that of Paley, who says, with his usual clear brevity *,... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Crime - 1879 - 430 pages
...acceptance, that might otherwise have been given, to this principle. 1 Note by the Author, July 1822. this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation...caprice instead of reason, in darkness instead of light. But enough of metaphor and declamation : it is not by such means that moral science is to be improved.... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Civil law - 1879 - 378 pages
...that might otherwise have been given, to this principle. Principle of utility, what. Utility, what. this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation...caprice instead of reason, in darkness instead of light. But enough of metaphor and declamation : it is not by such means that moral science is to be improved.... | |
 | John Tillotson - Quotations - 1880 - 392 pages
...we think ; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and to confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their...caprice instead of reason, in darkness instead of light. The happiness of the individuals of whom a community is composed- — that is, their pleasures and... | |
 | Wm. T. Harris,Edited By. - 1881 - 460 pages
...foundation of that system the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by the hands of reason and law. Systems which attempt to question it deal in sounds instead of sense, in caprices instead of reason, in darkness instead of light. . . . By utility is meant that property in... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1882 - 400 pages
...principle of utility recognises this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that system, the I object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity...caprice instead of reason, in darkness instead of light. The happiness of the individuals of whom a community is composed — that is, their pleasures and their... | |
 | William Leonard Courtney - Ethics - 1886 - 406 pages
...for the foundation of that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by the hand of reason and of law. Systems which attempt to question...instead of reason, in darkness instead of light." There is no uncertain or ambiguous tone in Bentham's ethics : there is none of that process of softening... | |
 | William Leonard Courtney - Ethics - 1886 - 392 pages
...for the foundation of that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by the hand of reason and of law. Systems which attempt to question...instead of reason, in darkness instead of light." There is no uncertain or ambiguous tone in Bentham's ethics : there is none of that process of softening... | |
 | Universalism - 1886 - 540 pages
...foundation of that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by the hands of reason and law. " Systems which attempt to question it, deal...instead of reason, in darkness instead of light." '' By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1913 - 500 pages
...that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by the hands rf reason and of lay. Systems which attempt to question it, deal in sounds...instead of sense, in caprice instead of reason, in dark nous instead of light.'— Bentham's ft-inotf let of Morals and Legislation, ch. i. ' By the principle... | |
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