Principles of the Civil Code

Jeremy Bentham

Part 1, Chapter 14, Footnote #04
No real opposition


I do not mean that there is a real opposition between the useful and the agreeable: every thing which gives pleasure is useful; but in ordinary language, that is exclusively called useful which possesses a distant utility; that agreeable, which has an immediate utility or is limited to present pleasure. Very many things, whose utility is contested, have therefore a more certain utility than those to which this denomination is appropriated.


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Pcc, Part 1, Chapter 14 Cases Subject to Dispute.