This work begins by noting that "the age we live in is a busy age, in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection," but says improvement in the natural world must be followed by reformation in the moral.
This work begins by noting that "the age we live in is a busy age, in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection," but says improvement in the natural world must be followed by reformation in the moral. The fifth and last chapter is on the "Duty of the Supreme Power to Make Laws," which is refuted, after the fourth chapter on the "Right of the Supreme Power to Make Laws." In chapter 3, the author cynically uses a mathematical proof to show that the British constitution is all-perfect, but says the same proof could show that it is "all-weak, all-foolish, and all-knavish." It opens with an epigraph from Montesquieu saying that "nothing draws back the progress of knowledge more than a bad work of a celebrated author," and the work itself is a critique of a major portion of Blackstone's Commentaries. It represents the first major work of its author, published a decade before An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. FTP, name this brief piece on rule by the state written by Jeremy Bentham.
This work begins by noting that "the age we live in is a busy age, in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection," but says improvement in the natural world must be followed by reformation in the moral.
A {Fragment on Government}