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the last three chapters we have been considering various objections which might be urged against the theory stated in Chapters I and II. And the very last objection which we considered was one which consisted in asserting that the question whether an action is right or wrong does not depend upon its actual consequences, because whenever the consequences, so far as the agent can foresee, are likely to be the best possible, the action is always right, even if they are not actually the best possible. In other words, this objection rested on the view that right and wrong depend, in a sense, upon what the agent can know. And in the present chapter I propose to consider objections, which rest, instead of this, upon the view that right and wrong depend upon what the agent can do.