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 OBJEOT$ OF DBVELOPMINT forms (as of trees, clouds, the human figure) and natural colors (green, brown, grey, sky-blue) to which man has for ages become habituated as $ favorable environment.  The. corresponding evolution of he reproductive and socml activities o he plane of inelligen ut, ilizsion for production of pleasan feeling is as ye far less advanced. The disconnected sudies of sex relations and moher- hood, of civics, and of he allied political and social sciences 'and ars, are a beginning in his direction. 3. Maximization of Happiness as the Aim of Deliberate Social Action.--The so-called "uiliarian" heory were clearly been confused involves two entirely distinct theses which distingnished by by illany of his Bentham , critics: (1) but have that all deliberate actions proceed rom the individual's innate desire for and for avoidance !ncrease of pleasant feeling, or reduction of unpleasant feeling; and (2) that all individual, social and rules of action should be such as will maximise balance. of pleasant feeling, community as a whole. The tion of fact and state the i.e. happiness, in the According is' at first thesis is a ques- belongs to the science of psycho- o modern psychologists conscious- differen times 1ogy. n88 iu a state of pleasant indifference, or unpleasan feeling, the first frequently and rapidly. in inensiy, may be lnomenL  physiological said to be positive, zero, or Positive feeling tends to process of anabelism, or feeling, or and last varying so that feeling negative at any accompany the building up, and negative feeling (unpleasant) tends  H.B. Marshall, {b/d., pp.gl0-8. lroduct to t  of Ma a Lt (ed. of 188), V. I;, Cpter III, p.41. Cf. ai Sid..ck, M$l of , 1st ., p.l8 t ge ss omit iu  itmus. s The ft that iufui and pleat nsao are "nvey" om th nsitive suff of the y by diffent se of nees does not show  the npit and pl ss of froling  not the ntive d ti nsiies of a single ud or quality of feeling. It is within evey's fi tt in dldi io unpit fli is. t off inst pit fH d the  (whmhever is )deten the .