"That Action is best which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers; and that worst, which, in like manner, occasions misery."
— Happiness

January 1, 1970

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Frances Hutcheson, Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725). Treatise II, Section 3. An Inquiry concerning Moral Good and Evil.