The Promotion of General Happiness: A Utilitarian EssayS. Sonnenschein, 1890 - Всего страниц: 186 |
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agricultural alcohol amount ancient ancient Greece animals average happiness average health Brahmin caste century charity civilised comparison consider consideration custom death death-rate Demosthenes diminish diminution discovery disease doubt England enjoy Eupolis euthanasia evil fact favour feeling felicific fellowmen give given happier Henry Sidgwick Herodotus Hippocrates human race hunting immense improve the health increase of population increase the happiness India individual infanticide inferior instance invention Isocrates killed knowledge labour land large number laws less lives marriage means medical science misery modern moral nation natural natural selection ness object optimists owing pain perhaps pessimists Plato poor practice present productive of happiness promote happiness Pulayars reason regard result sacred fig savage seclusion Shudras Sophocles sources of pleasure starvation strong drink struggle for existence suffer superiority supposed suttee sympathy tarian taxation Thomas Beckett tion total abstinence utilitarian vegetarianism wages whole widows wine woman women Zoroaster
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Стр. 22 - It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the...
Стр. 16 - And it is without all controversy, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous : and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes.
Стр. 55 - I esteem it the office of a physician not only to restore health, but to mitigate pain and dolors ; and not only when such mitigation may conduce to recovery, but when it may serve to make a fair and easy passage...
Стр. 16 - ... tread surer by a guide than a seeing man can by a light. And it is without all controversy that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwart, and mutinous : and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes.
Стр. 155 - Gie him strong drink until he wink, That's sinking in despair ; An' liquor guid to fire his bluid, That's prest wi' grief an' care ; There let him bouse, an' deep carouse, Wi' bumpers flowing o'er, Till he forgets his loves or debts, An
Стр. 106 - There would be a great and increasing surplus revenue from the taxation of land values, for material progress, which would go on with greatly accelerated rapidity, would tend constantly to increase rent.
Стр. 22 - ... man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind.
Стр. 22 - ... of the day ; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of the human muscles ; it has accelerated motion ; it has annihilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, all friendly offices, all...
Стр. 88 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best...
Стр. 4 - How singular is the thing called pleasure, and how curiously related to pain, which might be thought to be the opposite of it ; for they never come to a man together, and yet he who pursues either of them is generally compelled to take the other. They are two, and yet they grow together out of one head or stem...