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In our age, you could not find a writer who should deny it, unless you were to search out some wild eccentric.
But our friends the hedonists, who base morality on pleasure, would be far more logical if they denied there was any distinction of right and wrong.
Do not think I wish to cast personal aspertions on the hedonists.
I regard them as in some respects the salt in the earth.
The writings of Jeremy Bentham, who is the exremest of hedonists, probably confessed more solid benefit on mankind than those of any other philosopher of his time; and they have done so because of his inflexible logic.
The intellectual power of the hedonists is [?reah].
But that has not prevented their falling into a pitiful confusion of thought.
I have not time to prove to you, as I could do, that they actually do fall int this confusion.
But [?aver], upon evident proof, that they confound two things, an efficient agency and a mental formula, regarding both alike as feelings, when in fact neither are so.

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