Monotonicity of the integral

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If $f(x) \leq g(x)$ for all $x \in [a,b]$ then $\int_a^b f \leq \int_a^b g.$

What I did i followed Bartle's method but I cannot keep up on what He meant.

This is the uniqueness so that we'll be familiar:

S as "sum" and I'll just P' for P partitions

Referring to this:

$\left|S(f;P')-\int_a^bf\right|<\frac{\varepsilon}{2}$ and $\left|S(g;P')-\int_a^bg\right|<\frac{\varepsilon}{2}$ (1)

This was Bartle's method:

To prove the inequality, we note that the triangle inequality be applied to (1)

thus,

$\int_a^b f - \frac{\varepsilon}{2} < S(f;P')$ and $S(g;P')<\int_a^b g + \frac{\varepsilon}{2} $

If we use the fact that $S(f;P')\leq S(g;P')$ , we have

$\int_a^b f \leq \int_a^b g + \varepsilon$

But, since $\varepsilon$ is an arbitrary number we conclude that $\int_a^b f \leq \int_a^b g$

Please help me to understand this, how it turned out to this it's simplified and there were no further details