“But the constant pursuit of a moralist is to render all beings EQUALLY HAPPY, to increase the stock of happiness, and to lessen the stock of pain, as far as is in his power; these are the keystones on which all the rest depend, on these my own ideas rest, and this is serving God.”
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Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes
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