Bishop Richard Cumberland
(1631 – 1718)

translation of Bishop Richard Cumberland's De legibus naturæ
"The greatest possible benevolence of every rational agent towards all the rest constitutes the happiest state of each and all. Accordingly common good will be the supreme law."
Richard Cumberland
(De legibus naturæ, 1672)

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