oversimplifies

Updated: May 19, 2025

Even if it be said that Priestley has all the vices of that rationalism which, as with Bentham, oversimplifies every problem it encounters, it is yet adequate to retort that a confidence in the energies of men was better than the complacent stagnation of the previous age.

Harold Joseph Laski - Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham