State argument of the passage below in premise-conclusion form.

State argument of the passage below in premise-conclusion form.

“[T]o consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing; to pass over the intermediate

generalizations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first

principle, is another. It is a strange notion that the acknowledgement of a first principle is

inconsistent with the admission of secondary ones. To inform a traveller respecting the

place of his ultimate destination, is not to forbid the use of landmarks and direction posts

on the way. The proposition that happiness is the end aim of morality, does not mean that

no road ought to be laid down to that goal, or that persons going thither should not be

advised to take one direction rather than another. […] [A]ll rational creatures go out upon

the sea of life with their minds made up on the common questions of right and wrong…”

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