"Priestly was the first (unless it was Beccaria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth—that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
Happiness

January 1, 1970

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Jeremy Bentham, Volume X, p. 142.

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