Could man ever return to the felicific idea of progress as advocated by the 18th or 19th centuries? |
The Langham is proof of the felicific power of good architecture, the power to promote, both in its inhabitants and in passers-by, happiness. |
Obviously, such a felicific coincidence cries out for both terms to be featured together in the same palindrome, but first things first. |
Bentham's felicific calculus, that policy should be concerned with the greatest happiness of the greatest number, gradually confined beauty to a preserve of elites. |
America's felicific stagnation shouldn't be ignored, Bok argues, whatever the explanation. |
Has conduct worth in and for itself, or only as its consequences are felicific as regards the social welfare? |