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is by no means so inevitable as it would be, if one admitted the existence of disinterested sympathy and insisted that this latter must be present in the case of all truly moral action.
In taking leave of this remarkable essay, we should not forget that its full significance can be appreciated only after one has taken the trouble to trace back many of what are regarded as characteristic doctrines of Tucker and Paley to this their undoubted source. However much these authors did to fill in the outline,—and Tucker, at least, did a very great deal,—it must be granted that the whole outline of Utilitarianism, in its first complete and unencumbered form, is to be found in Gay's Preliminary Dissertation."
Ernest Albee
