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I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for ...more

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It is an adherent condition of human affairs that no intention, however sincere, of protecting the interests of others can make it safe or salutary to...more

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There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, and resent it as an outrage to their feelings; as a...more

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The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the w...more

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It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but ...more

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Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather th...more

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth ...more

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The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they ...more