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1929. June 9. Article on Utilitarianism

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82.
J.B. has expressed
surprise at want
of instructiveness
in the examples in
Sanderson's Compend.
As little logical instruction
as there
is political in the
Contract Social.

When speaking of the Aristotelian
logic, otherwise called logic of the schools, Mr.
Bentham has often been heard calling to mind
the surprise and disappointment experienced by
him at observing, in Bishop Sanderson's Compend
well digested and useful as it is, the utter want of
instructiveness in the examples, numerous as they
are, which it contains : the actual nothingness
forming so curious a contrast with the magnificence
of it's pretensions, professing as it does to contain
within itself a sort of miniature Encyclopedia
in miniature, teaching every thing that is worth
knowing. The case is, that what is taught by these
examples, and given for demonstrations, is little, if
any thing, more than the relation which, in common,
speech, the import of one of two words bears to that
of another; and much of a sort with the encyclopedical
instructions thus conveyed by these systems
of logic, is the political instruction conveyed by
Rousseau in his Contrat social : as little use
made in the one as in the other of the only source
of real information - observation, experience, and
experiment.

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Date_1	1829-06-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	82
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	396	Info in main headings field	article on utilitarianism
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