They are urged by other motives, of the impassioned kind; among which, is to be signalized sympathy with the pains and pleasures of others.

If this had been the only instance of action at variance with the regular course of the will, we should be able to maintain that the motive to act is still happiness, but not always the agent's own happiness.

We have seen, however, that individuals, not unfrequently, act in opposition both to their own, and to other people's happiness; as when mastered by a panic, and when worked up into a frenzy of anger or antipathy.
The sound and tenable position seems to be this:--Human beings, in their best and soberest moods, looking before and after, weighing all the consequences of actions, are generally disposed to regard Happiness, to some beings or others, as the proper end of all endeavours.

The mother is not exclusively bent on her own happiness; she is upon her child's.

Howard abandoned the common pleasures of life for himself, to diminish the misery of fellow creatures.
(2) It is true that human beings are apt to regard Virtue as an end-in-itself, and not merely as a means to happiness as the final end.