John Stuart Mill, 'Bentham', London and Westminster Review (August 1838), in Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical, Vol. I (1859), p. 368
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He found the philosophy of law a chaos, he left it a science: he found the practice of the law an Augean stable, he turned the river into it which is mining and sweeping away mound after mound of its rubbish.
— John Stuart Mill on Jeremy Bentham
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About John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), also known as J. S. Mill, was an English political philosopher and economist who was an advocate of utilitarianism.
About John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), also known as J. S. Mill, was an English political philosopher and economist who was an advocate of utilitarianism.
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