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culiar sentiment which attaches to the former; as contradistinguished from the latter。 If this characteristic sentiment has been sufficiently accounted for; if there is no necessity to assume for it any peculiarity of origin; if it is simply the natural feeling of resentment; moralised by being made coextensive with the demands of social good; and if this feeling not only does but ought to exist in all the classes of cases to which the idea of justice corresponds; that idea no longer presents itself as a stumbling…block to the utilitarian ethics。   Justice remains the appropriate name for certain social utilities which are vastly more important; and therefore more absolute and imperative; than any others are as a class (though not more so than others may be in particular cases); and which; therefore; ought to be; as well as naturally are; guarded by a sentiment not only different in degree; but also in kind; distinguished from the milder feeling which attaches to the mere idea of promoting human pleasure or convenience; at once by the more definite nature of its commands; and by the sterner character of its sanctions。

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