[729]. Not quite logical, if the test of a virtuous action is its tendency to produce happiness.
[730]. Ibid., IV. i. p. 390.
[731]. 2nd ed., pp. 489, 490, 501; 7th ed., pp. 390, 401. Cf. Paley, M. and P. Phil., I. vi., II. iv.; Tucker, Light of Nature (1st ed., 1768), vol. ii. ch. xxix., esp. § 12.
[732]. Essay, 7th ed., IV. i. 391. Kant’s test of a moral law, so far as it was not purely dogmatic, was most easily illustrated, or he would have said parodied, by this Utilitarian argument.
[733]. Essay, 2nd ed., p. 487; 7th ed., p. 392.
[734]. Ibid., 2nd ed., p. 488; 7th ed., pp. 392–3; cf. p. 398.
[735]. Ibid., 1st ed. (1798), p. 211.
[736]. The passage in A Tale of the Tyne, which left no trace on Miss Martineau’s own memory, but so faithfully expounded Malthus that he called on purpose to thank her for it (Autobiogr., i. 253), is easily identified in the light of these extracts as ch. iii. p. 56 of ed. 1833.
[737]. 2nd ed., pp. 491–2; 7th ed., p. 395. See above, p. 36.
[738]. 2nd ed., p. 494; 7th ed., p. 397. Cf. above, p. 38.