Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics

CHAPTER I.

_ANTI-UTILITARIANISM._

I.

Having, by the heading of this essay, announced that it is intended to be partly controversial, I can scarcely begin better than by furnishing the reader with the means of judging whether I myself correctly apprehend the doctrine which I am about to criticise. If, then, I were myself an Utilitarian, and, for the sake either of vindica...