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Updated: October 13, 2025
We can assume that he has on the average certain qualities from which his actions in the mass can be determined with sufficient accuracy, and we are tempted to assume that they are mainly the qualities obvious to an inhabitant of Queen's Square Place about the year 1800. Mill defends Bentham against the charge that he assumed his codes to be good for all men everywhere.
To correct all this, let us recall Helvétius's saying that I have already quoted, which made so deep an impression on Jeremy Bentham: "In order to love mankind, we must not expect too much from them."
He does not, like a Bentham, a Paley, take Right and Wrong, and calculate the profit and loss, ultimate pleasure of the one and of the other; and summing all up by addition and subtraction into a net result, ask you, Whether on the whole the Right does not preponderate considerably?
He was not only never in love, but it looks as if he never even talked to any woman except his cook or housemaid. The one conclusion that I need draw concerns a question not, I think, hard to be solved. It would be easy to make a paradox by calling Bentham at once the most practical and most unpractical of men. This is to point out the one-sided nature of Bentham's development.
At present there is no similar agreement either among the younger men in parliament, or among a sufficiently numerous group of writers outside of parliament. The Edinburgh Reviewers were most of them students of the university of that city. The Westminster Reviewers had all sat at the feet of Bentham. Each group had thus a common doctrine and a positive doctrine.
His method, however, as applied to politics, was not original in fact, it was Bentham's. Bentham, who was perhaps, in the field of jurisprudence, the most destructive critic that ever appeared, had the merit which in his day was somewhat novel among reformers, and marked him out as something very different from Continental radicals of being also highly constructive.
We leave Mr Bentham to settle with Mr Mill the distinction between a despot and an absolute king. In the third place, Mr Bentham says that there was in Denmark a balanced contest between the king and the nobility.
The illustrations, suggested first by Bentham, which Mr.
You are in possession of information which would be invaluable to the police in their search for the murderer of Morris Barnes." Mr. Bentham smiled coldly. "And are not you," he remarked, "in the same fortunate position with the unfortunate exception, perhaps, of having already given your testimony? Of the two, if disclosures had to be made, I think that I should prefer my own position."
It is his complaint against Bentham and the later supporters of Utility, that they have misplaced the application of the principle, and have encouraged the too frequent appeal to calculation in the details of conduct. He farther remarks on the tendency of Bentham and his followers to treat Ethics too juridically.
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