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His semi-delirious speculations on the miseries of civilized life, the preferability of the savage to the civilized, and such like, helped well to produce a whole delirium in France generally.

From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

But on the point of moral preferability, there seems at first sight to be room for doubt.

From Considerations on Representative Government by Mill, John Stuart

Having arrived at this answer, we can no longer compare existence and non-existence in respect to preferability, and the second problem presents itself to us as the question as to what existence is of value.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

The element of quality in pleasure may be verified more easily as what may be called preferability.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.