Excerpt from Utilitarianism

There are few circumstances, among those which make up the present condi tion of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been expected, or more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the most important sub jects still lingers, than the little progress which has been made in the decision of the controversy respecting the criterion of right and wrong. From the dawn of philosophy, the question concerning the summum bonum, or, what is the same thing, concerning the foundation of moral ity, has been accounted the main problem in speculative thought, has occupied the most gifted intellects, and divided them into sects and schools, carrying on swig, 'u'ous warfare against one another. Hob.

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