18 Jan y 1810

Parl y. Reform

Ch.18 Sp.

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This no more than the principle of general utility - greatest happiness of d o number

In this maxim may be seen a paraphrase - and neither more nor less than the paraphrase of that principle, which for shortness is designated by the name of the principle of utility, and which when employed to designate the standard of reference by which the merit or demerit of a human action /act/ is referred and by which it is to be judged of - assigns the influence /indicates as the [...?] and measure of such merit or demerit/ of such act on the welfare of as many human beings on whose welfare it is capable of exerting /exercising/ any influence: and surely if this be not the same standard it will not be easy to say what is.