The desire of some form of happiness being secured, as a motive power, it seems to have been left very much to the option of each individual to select his own objects of enjoyment, whether noble or ignoble, and to devise his own means for obtaining them, whether righteous or unrighteous.
Mann discusses the individual's freedom to choose their own path to happiness, regardless of its moral implications.
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