 Prejudice apart, the game of pushpin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry. If the game of push-pin furnish more pleasure, it is more valuable than either.  Works of Jeremy Bentham - Page 247by Jeremy Bentham - 1839Full view - About this book
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...and poetry. If the game of Pushpin furnish more pleasure, it is more valuable than either. Every body can play at Pushpin ; poetry and music are relished...few. The game of Pushpin is always innocent -. it would be well if the same could always be asserted of poetry. Indeed between poetry and troth there... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 396 pages
...see ! POETRY AND UTILITARIANISM. Prejudice apart, the game of Pushpin is of equal value with the arts of music and poetry. If the game of Pushpin furnish more pleasure, it is more valuable than either. Every body can play at Pushpin : poetry and music are relished only by a few. The game of Pushpin is... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 370 pages
...see ! POETRY AND UTILITARIANISM. Prejudice apart, the game of Pushpin is of equal value with the arts of music and poetry. If the game of Pushpin furnish more pleasure, it is more valuable than either. Every body can play at Pushpin ; poetry and music are relished only by a few. The game of Pushpin is... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 364 pages
...AND UTILITARIANISM. Prejudice apart, the game of Pushpin is of equal value with the arts of music aud poetry. If the game of Pushpin furnish more pleasure, it is more valuable than either. Every hody can play at Pushpin : poetry and music are relished only by a few. The game of Pushpin is... | |
 | Charles Ryle Fay - Great Britain - 1920 - 344 pages
...sqq. * See below, p. 94. * Works, x. 142. 4 " Prejudice apart, the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry. If...furnish more pleasure, it is more valuable than either". Works, u. 253. "greatest happiness" has come down in history as the badge of the English Utilitarians1.... | |
 | Bhikhu C. Parekh - Political Science - 1993 - 1112 pages
...HISTORY OF INSTITUTIONS (3d ed. 1880) 400. 29. "Prejudice apart, the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry. If...furnish more pleasure, it is more valuable than either." 2 BENTHAM, op. cit. supra note 5, at 253; cf. 10 ibid. 583. 30. 1 MILL, op. cit. supra note 15, at... | |
 | Richard Foulkes - Drama - 1997 - 292 pages
...proportion to the pleasures they yield . . . Prejudice apart, the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry. If...it is more valuable than either. Everybody can play push-pin: poetry and music are relished only by a few' (p. 253). Bentham's only concession to poetry... | |
 | Fred Feldman - Philosophy - 1997 - 240 pages
...He said that quantity is all that matters. "Prejudice apart, the game of pushpin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry. If...more pleasure, it is more valuable than either."" Mill, on the other hand, said: It is quite compatible with the principle of utility to recognise the... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1998 - 376 pages
...version. Bentham's own words are as follows: Prejudice apart, the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry. If...push-pin: poetry and music are relished only by a few.31 The complexities and difficulties which ensue upon introducing the factor of 'extent' into calculations... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - Social Science - 2000 - 466 pages
...established among them is altogether fanciful. Prejudice apart, the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry. If...push-pin: poetry and music are relished only by a few. The Rationale of Reward (1825) 1843:253. -> The Oxford English Dictionary describes pushpin as "a child's... | |
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