So it is with Navigation, with Politics, with Education, and others.

In all of them, we recognize the bearing upon human welfare, or happiness, as a common, comprehensive, and crowning end.

On the theory of Utility, Morals is also governed by this highest end.
Now, there can be no proof offered for the position that Happiness is the proper end of all human pursuit, the criterion of all right conduct.

It is an ultimate or final assumption, to be tested by reference to the individual judgment of mankind.

If the assumption, that misery, and not happiness, is the proper end of life, found supporters, no one could reply, for want of a basis of argument--an assumption still more fundamental agreed upon by both sides.