ABSTRACT
The aim of Mr. Herbert Spencer’s recently published book on the Data of Ethics is, as the author tells the reader in his preface, “the establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis And though the-volume itself is not a complete treatise on the subject to which it relates—being, in fact, only the first division of such a treatise—it claims to imply the specific conclusions to be set forth in the entire work “in such wise that definitely to formulate them requires nothing beyond logical deduction”. The frankly teleological point of view from which, in this book, Mr. Spencer contemplates the phenomena of Life generally, seems worthy of notice ; since in his Principles of Biology he seems to have taken some pains to avoid “teleological implications”. Mr. Spencer seems to use “pleasure” and “happiness”—or at least “quantity of pleasure” and “quantity of happiness”—as convertible terms.
