The river, he repeated, was and continues to be open, and he could not discover the utility of our declaring our right to the free navigation when we are in full unmolested possession of the right.
The sudden and remarkable advantages which this country has experienced from a small naval armament, sufficiently prove the utility of its establishment.
Who is to judge of the necessity or utility of these services?
Indeed, it was come to this, they must either provide for the protection of commerce, or deny the utility of it, and give it up altogether.
One role allotted to the Ford, however, although of necessity accorded little or no prominence in the public Press at the time, proved far-reaching in its effects in regard to practical utility from the strictly military point of view.
If the etymology of the name Renelle is doubtful, the utility of the stream at least is not so.
If no such necessity exist, but equity or utility manifestly require a restriction to the literal meaning, it must be most rigidly adhered to, except where circumstances compel us to do otherwise.
And the question, which the same author puts a little before respecting goods deposited by one, whose property had been confiscated, is better settled by this principle, than by what he says elsewhere on the utility of punishment.
But, if care be taken to inflict no more punishment than is due for an offence; it may be greater or less, in proportion to theutility to be derived from thence.
In naval associations the common motive of utility is self-defence against pirates: though they may sometimes be formed from less worthy motives.
Besides although some points are so clear, as to admit of no doubt, yet universal danger is sufficient to establish the equity and utility of a general law.
Since capital and labor are fixed and organized in certain employments and cannot flow freely into others, the disturbance of the balance is destructive to the utility of the capital and labor thus fixed.
The United States has not a law which would protect owners in an effort to change the system of shipping seamen, improving their condition, or protecting them in their rights, or in increasing the number and the utility of seamen.
Respecting the utility of these works, members generally know nothing and can say nothing; nor are they proper objects of legislation.
Varro, his opinion of the utility of men feigning themselves to be the offspring of gods, i.
Assuredly no part of the body has been created for the sake of utility which does not also contribute something to its beauty.
The Radicals contended that the foundation of Legislation was that utility which produced the greatest happiness to the greatest number.
In the meantime, Paley had printed a treatise on the Principle of applying utility to morals and legislation.
The writings of Hume, Helvetius and others led him to adopt utility as the basis of Morals and Legislation.
Their own experience can alone test the utility of their system, and whether it does or does not answer their expectations.
This breakwater is a noble work; the daring of the conception, its vast size and strength, and the utility of its purpose, are alike admirable.
This ludicrous overvaluation and misconception of consciousness has as its result the great utility that a too rapid maturing of it has thereby been hindered.
The wish to get rid of utility in some way--that is precisely what has elevated man, that is what has inspired him to morality and art!
Whatever may be the value of metaphysical or theological theories of morals, utility in conduct is a daily test of common sense, and is capable of deciding intelligently more questions of practical duty than any other rule.
Even truth can only claim priority of utterance, when its utility is manifest.
Our morality is tested only--be it noted--by utility in this life and in this world.
Utility in morals is measuring the good of one by its agreement with the good of many.
First, as we have seen, Marx is very careful to insist that utility is essential to value, and that the utility must be a social utility.
In so far as the basis of social utility is the social labor necessary for its production, the labor-value theory of Marx may be said, I think, to include the marginal utility law, as one of the forms in which it operates.
He sells the utility of that commodity to the capitalist for its exchange-value, or market price.
The present writer has long contended that the marginal utility theory and the Marxian labor-value theory are likewise not antagonistic but complementary.
But social utility does not come of itself, from the skies or elsewhere.
He says: "I have often been asked what present utility is to be expected of the dirigible balloon when it becomes thoroughly practicable.
Utility has a nobler sense than a mere ministering to our physical wants, a mere catering to our sense of luxury.
Thus in union is our strength at home, for it gives the whole power and resources of the nation to works of common utility and necessity.
Useful professions are clearly meant for the public, but those whose utility is more dubious can only justify their existence by assuming that the public is meant for them: now, this is just the illusion that lies at the root of solemnity.
To understand laughter, we must put it back into its natural environment, which is society, and above all must we determine the utility of its function, which is a social one.
But utility demands that these outbursts should be foreseen and averted.
This was in many respects the most important flight, as suggesting the possible practical utility of the aeroplane, that had hitherto been made.
But whatever the future of the gyroscope as applied to pleasure-craft, there can be little doubt about its utility as applied to vessels of war.
Otto Schlick, to put before the world, first as a theory and then as a demonstration, the practical utility of the revolving wheel in preventing a ship from rolling.
But the great unsolved problem of submarine navigation--practically the only one that now opposes a question mark to its great utility in warfare--is that of steering with certainty of direction when submerged.
It was long, indeed, before he could understand why systematic reforms were not immediately accepted as soon as their utility was logically demonstrated.
Whenever there appears to be a conflict between these rules and considerations, utility is the only sure criterion.
Nevertheless Mill contends gallantly in his later works for intellectual liberty, complete freedom of discussion, and the utility of tolerating the most eccentric opinions.
Bentham's earlier notion had been that political reforms could be introduced like improvements in machinery; you had only to prove the superior utility of your new invention to obtain its adoption by all who were concerned in the business.
The question as to the utility of the “initial stages” of useful characters must here be set at rest.
The failure of the eye-spots in causing terror in these particular cases cannot be regarded as disproving their utility in all instances.
Roebuck, Mr. Boulton, and others, as to the merits and probable utility of the invention.
The immense utility of this result strikes mechanicians with even less force than the simplicity of the means by which Watt has attained it.
