item: #1 of 6 id: 11224 author: Mill, John Stuart title: Utilitarianism date: None words: 27761 flesch: 45 summary: Other persons, again, hold the directly contrary opinion, that any law, judged to be bad, may blamelessly be disobeyed, even though it be not judged to be unjust, but only inexpedient; while others would confine the licence of disobedience to the case of unjust laws: but again, some say, that all laws which are inexpedient are unjust; since every law imposes some restriction on the natural liberty of mankind, which restriction is an injustice, unless legitimated by tending to their good. There are other cases in which impartiality means, being solely influenced by desert; as with those who, in the capacity of judges, preceptors, or parents, administer reward and punishment as such. keywords: case; desire; feeling; general; good; happiness; human; justice; law; life; means; morality; person; pleasure; principle; right; utilitarian; utility cache: 11224.txt plain text: 11224.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 25788 author: Stephen, Leslie title: The English Utilitarians, Volume 2 (of 3) James Mill date: None words: 109316 flesch: 65 summary: The old system in which the ruling classes carried on business by family alliances and bargains between ministers and great men would be impracticable. To Mill Bentham was the legitimate development of Hartley, while to Mackintosh Bentham was the plausible perverter of Hartley. keywords: argument; association; belief; bentham; brown; capital; case; character; church; coleridge; doctrine; economy; essay; fact; good; government; happiness; ibid; ideas; increase; interest; james; james mill; labour; law; laws; life; mackintosh; malthus; man; means; men; mill; moral; morality; nature; order; people; philosophy; place; point; political; poor; population; position; power; principles; question; reform; religion; ricardo; right; sense; social; society; state; system; theory; things; thought; time; utilitarians; utility; value; view; wages; way; wealth; works; world cache: 25788.txt plain text: 25788.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 25937 author: Lyall, Alfred Comyn, Sir title: Studies in Literature and History date: None words: 142244 flesch: 50 summary: The Myth, the Romance, the Historic Novel, each in its successive period, did at least this service to later generations: they preserved and handed down to us the popular impressions, the figures or pictures of great men and striking events, as they were reflected upon the imagination of subsequent ages. The heroic ideal, to use Professor Ker's words, is thus worked up out of the sayings and doings of great men of the fore-time, who stand forth as the type and embodiment of the virtues and vices of their age, as it was conceived by poets who could handle the popular traditions. keywords: action; ancient; art; asia; author; bismarck; book; british; byron; century; character; church; class; country; course; day; death; emperor; empire; england; english; europe; example; experience; fact; fiction; form; france; french; frontier; general; good; government; great; ground; hand; heroic; historical; history; ideas; india; influence; interest; islam; kind; king; language; letters; life; light; line; literature; lord; man; manners; men; mill; mind; modern; moment; moral; national; nature; new; novel; ollivier; order; people; period; place; poetry; politics; power; present; public; race; religion; romance; russian; school; scott; sea; set; society; spirit; state; stephen; style; subject; swinburne; thackeray; things; thought; time; tribes; true; verse; war; way; western; work; world; writer; writing; years cache: 25937.txt plain text: 25937.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 27597 author: Stephen, Leslie title: The English Utilitarians, Volume 1 (of 3) date: None words: 94321 flesch: 65 summary: The unsettled conditions which followed the peace in various European countries found Bentham other employment. Of these eleven were held by members of noble families; fourteen were held by men who had been tutors in, or in other ways personally connected with the royal family or the families of ministers and great men; and of the remaining two, one rested his claim upon political writing in defence of Pitt, while the other seems to have had the support of a great city company. keywords: account; action; bentham; book; case; century; characteristic; church; class; classes; conduct; constitution; country; course; doctrine; dumont; end; england; english; evidence; experience; fact; french; general; good; government; happiness; history; house; ibid; iii; interest; law; laws; legislation; life; lord; main; man; men; mill; new; order; pains; parliament; people; philosophy; place; pleasures; point; position; power; principles; question; reid; rights; science; sense; society; son; state; stewart; system; theory; thought; time; truth; utility; view; way; works; world; years; young cache: 27597.txt plain text: 27597.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 29917 author: Thornton, William Thomas title: Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications date: None words: 91430 flesch: 48 summary: And it is to Comtists of all people--intellectual salt of the earth as they are--that this figment is recommended for adoration--yes, to those who, pharisaically standing aloof from the common herd, thank their imaginary substitute for God, or whatever else it is they deem thankworthy, that they are not blind as other men are, and least of all as those dazed metaphysicians who actually personify their own mental abstractions. It must be admitted, then, that, so far, no reason has appeared why the force or forces by which the universe was originally moulded, may not, as contended, have been perfectly heedless and reckless; may not, without the least premeditation or the slightest view to any ulterior object, have produced certain phenomena in those particular sequences to which the name of natural laws has been given; and may not, with the same total absence of purpose, have adopted certain other courses of action which, very fortunately, though quite undesignedly, have resulted in the production of endless varieties of mechanism, most of them of marvellously intricate and complex structure, and all and each of them of structure marvellously suitable for performing, in co-operation with Nature's laws, functions of an utility as varied as their structure. keywords: action; case; causes; circumstances; course; doubt; duty; effect; existence; experience; fact; form; general; god; good; happiness; having; human; hume; idea; individuals; intelligence; justice; law; laws; life; matter; mill; mind; nature; new; number; object; order; people; phenomena; place; pleasure; point; power; present; property; protoplasm; qualities; question; reason; results; right; self; sensations; sense; shall; society; species; things; thought; thy; time; truth; utilitarianism; virtue; water; way; words; wrong cache: 29917.txt plain text: 29917.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 38138 author: Mill, John Stuart title: Socialism date: None words: 25892 flesch: 48 summary: If it is the interest of the consumer that machines should be invented which lower prices by rendering production less costly, these same machines throw out of work thousands of workmen who do not know how to, and cannot at once, find other work. Another point on which there is much misapprehension on the part of Socialists, as well as of Trades Unionists and other partisans of Labor against Capital, relates to the proportions in which the produce of the country is really shared and the amount of what is actually diverted from those who produce it, to enrich other persons. keywords: capital; classes; competition; good; great; human; interest; labor; means; order; persons; power; present; produce; property; socialism; society; state; system; time; wages; work cache: 38138.txt plain text: 38138.txt