The Miscellaneous Writings, Speeches and Poems
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ISBN13: 9780217599368
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 191 UTILITARIAN THEORY OF GOVERNMENT. (october, 1829.) Westminster Review (XXII. Art. 16), on the Strictures of the Edinburgh Review (XCVIII. Art. 1), on the Utilitarian Theory of Government, and the Greatest Happiness Principle. We have long been of opinion that the Utilitarians have owed all their influence to a mere delusion? that, while professing to have submitted- their minds to an intellectual discipline of peculiar severity, to have discarded all sentimentality, and to have acquired consummate skill in the art of reasoning, they are decidedly inferior to the mass of educated men in the very qualities in which they conceive themselves to excel. They have undoubtedly freed themselves from the dominion of some absurd notions. But their struggle for intellectual emancipation has ended, as injudicious and violent struggles for political emancipation too often end, in a mere change of tyrants. Indeed, we are not sure that we do not prefer the venerable nonsense which holds prescriptive sway over the ultra-Tory to the upstart dynasty of prejudices and sophisms by which the revolutionists of the moral world have suffered themselves to be enslaved. The Utilitarians have sometimes been abused as intolerant, arrogant, irreligious, ?as enemies of literature, of the fine arts, and of the domestic charities. They have been reviled for some thingsof which they were guilty, and for some of which they were innocent. But scarcely anybody seems to have perceived that almost all their peculiar faults arise from the utter want both of comprehensiveness and of precision in their mode of reasoning. We have, for some time past, been convinced that this was really the case; and that, whenever their philosophy should be boldly and unsparingly scrutinised, the world would see that i...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217599368 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217599362 |
| Weight | 0.67 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 In |
| List Price | $22.26 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 200 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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