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not interfere with others
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Or, that it is only a high kind of happiness that can be shared by all
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Both of which suppositions are false
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The conditions of social health are a moral end only when we each feel a personal delight in maintaining them
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In this case they will supply us with a small portion of the moral aid needed
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But this case is not a possible one
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There is indeed the natural impulse of sympathy that might tend to make it so
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But this is counterbalanced by the corresponding impulse of selfishness
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And this impulse of sympathy itself is of very limited power
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Except under very rare conditions
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The conditions of general happiness are far too vague to do more than very slightly excite it
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Or give it power enough to neutralise any personal temptation
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At all events they would excite no enthusiasm
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For this purpose there must be some prize before us, of recognised positive value, more or less definite
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And before all things, to be enjoyed by us individually
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Unless this prize be of great value to begin with, its value will not become great because great numbers obtain it
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Nor until we know what it is, do we gain anything by the hope that men may more completely make it their own in the future
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The modern positive school requires a great general enthusiasm for the general good
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They therefore presuppose an extreme value for the individual good
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Our first enquiry must be therefore what the higher individual good is
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CHAPTER IV.
GOODNESS AS ITS OWN REWARD.
CHAPTER V.
LOVE AS A TEST OF GOODNESS.
CHAPTER VI.
LIFE AS ITS OWN REWARD.
CHAPTER VII.
THE SUPERSTITION OF POSITIVISM.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE PRACTICAL PROSPECT.
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