That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
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An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
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Original Citation
Hutcheson, Francis. An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. London: J. Darby, 1726, treatise 2, sect. 3, subsect. 8.
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Current Citation
Hutcheson, Francis. An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, edited by Wolfgang Leidhold. Liberty Fund, 2008.
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