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I'm a little concerned about the inconsistency in our sales figures over the last few months.
Only a few have perceived the inconsistency of thinking of the two in the same terms.
And yet, with the inconsistency which had marked her life, she had died at the very moment when life had actually begun to be worth living for her.
The inconsistency is serious from a scientific point of view, because it divorces barometric measurements from other physical measurements, in which pressures are measured in units that have nothing to do with length; viz.
The man who sees inconsistency in things is a humorist-and a Catholic.
A consideration of all the facts leads us to the result that a life consisting solely of nature and intelligence involves an intolerable inconsistency; form and content are sharply separated from each other; thought is strong enough to disturb the sense of satisfaction with nature, but is too weak to construct a new world in opposition to it.
This inconsistency of will our practical reason condemns as irrational, even apart from any judgment of approbation or disapprobation on either volition considered by itself.
There is a similar[38] inconsistency between the adoption of an end and a general refusal to take whatever means we may see to be indispensable to its attainment: and if, when the time comes, we do not take such means while yet we do not consciously retract our adoption of the end, it can hardly be denied that we ‘ought’ in consistency to act otherwise than we do.
Accordingly the aim of his teaching is not to induce men to choose duty rather than interest, but to convince them that there is no inconsistency between the two; that self-love and conscience lead “to one and the same course of life.
that as regards the proper regulation of resentment, Common Sense can only be saved from inconsistency or hopeless vagueness by adopting the ‘interest of society’ as the ultimate standard: and in the same way we cannot definitely distinguish Courage from Foolhardiness except by a reference to the probable tendency of the daring act to promote the wellbeing of the agent or of others, or to some definite rule of duty prescribed under some other notion.
In fact, this question seems to have been already discussed as far as is profitable: for the attempt to define each principle singly has inevitably led us to consider their mutual relations: and it was in the cases where two moral principles came into collision that we most clearly saw the vagueness and inconsistency with which the boundaries of each are determined by Common Sense.
I accordingly see no inconsistency in holding that while it would be reasonable for the aggregate of sentient beings, if it could act collectively, to aim at its own happiness only as an ultimate end-and would be reasonable for any individual to do the same, if he were the only sentient being in the universe-it may yet be actually reasonable for an individual to sacrifice his own Good or happiness for the greater happiness of others.
Similarly, the Utilitarian will praise the Dispositions or permanent qualities of character of which felicific conduct is conceived to be the result, and the Motives that are conceived to prompt to it when it would be a clear gain to the general happiness that these should become more frequent: and, as we have seen,[373] he may without inconsistency admire the Disposition or Motive if it is of a kind which it is generally desirable to encourage, even while he disapproves of the conduct to which it has led in any particular case.
But how could I, a poor dazed village lad, avoid that wonderful inconsistency into which the best and wisest of men fall every day?
Why did you who read this, commit that not dissimilar inconsistency of your own last year, last month, last week?
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