It may indeed become so, when the consciousness that we are conforming to it becomes one of the factors of our own personal happiness.

It then suffers a kind of apotheosis.

It is taken up into ourselves, and becomes part and parcel of our own personal morality.

But it then becomes quite a different matter, as we shall see very shortly; and even then it supplies us with but a very small part of the answer.
Thus far what has been made plain is this.

General, or social happiness, unless explained farther, is simply for moral purposes an unmeaning phrase.