 They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire: but in reality he will remain subject to...  The Contemporary Review - Page 5161879Full view - About this book
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - English literature - 1908 - 406 pages
...psychological problem. This distinction is made, and ignored, in the arresting paragraph that opens the work : Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...caprice instead of reason, in darkness instead of light These sentences give the gist of Bentham's simple philosophy. Everything rests upon pleasure and pain.... | |
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