ext_224908 ([identity profile] theomaniac.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] chickenfeet 2006-03-24 10:23 pm (UTC)

I'll bite, but I'm not passing the meme on. BTW see if you can guess the book. (I have no idea what yours is.)

This, being, according to the utilitarian opinion, the end of human action, is necessarily also the standard of morality; which may accordingly be defined, the rules and precepts for human conduct, by the observance of which an existence such as has been described might be, to the greatest extent possible, secured to all mankind; and not to them only, but, so far as the nature of things admits, to the whole sentient creation.

(This sentence, BTW is literally half the paragraph.)

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