Essays on Human Nature (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Essays on Human Nature If, instead of starting out to bring sunshine primarily into the lives of others, each one endeavored to bring it into his own life, as the whole of humanity embraces the lives of each, then all would be included. In approaching the subject, I will say I have none but common-sense methods to recommend. Those who have only metaphysical and supernatural ones generally prove themselves failures. I will start out with the assumption that sunshine arises from the pursuit of the highest good. But what is the highest good? According to Bentham and the Mill´s, it is the promotion of general happiness, while according to Herbert Spencer, it is the promotion, primarily, of self-happiness; while according to Carlyle, it is a calumny to say that men are moved to heroic actions by ease or hope of pleasure of any kind in. this world or the next. "In the meanest mortal there lies something better. It is not to taste sweets, but to do something nobler, that the poorest dimly longs. They wrong man greatly who say he is seduced by ease." John Fiske speaks of the desire for pleasure as a low motive. I have no doubt that there are higher ones, but notwithstanding the dictum of these men, the desire for pleasure is universal, showing that it is original in the human constitution, and that it cuts a prodigous figure in the actions of men as is evident to all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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