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1819 Dec. 6 Bentham’s Radical
1819 Dec. 6

Bentham’s Radical

Prelim

II. Necessity

Conclusion

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As to the people at large that element of appropriate aptitude they can not but possess, and to the utmost perfection. For the desire of such man will be his own greatest happiness: and by the sum of all those desires will be constituted the greatest happiness of the greatest number will be constituted.
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