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Quotation from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
“Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy, because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanack”
Utilitarianism, Chapter II (7th edition (1879))
Mill's answer to the objection that there is no time to calculate consequences: received moral rules are the ready-made tables of experience.
Citation: "Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy, because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanack" — John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, Chapter II (7th edition (1879)). (id utilitarianism-q10)
Portrait: John Stuart Mill by London Stereoscopic Company, c1870, London Stereoscopic Company, Public domain.
