A lecture delivered over the remains of Jeremy Bentham, Esq / [Southwood Smith].

  • Thomas Southwood Smith
Date:
1832
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Credit: A lecture delivered over the remains of Jeremy Bentham, Esq / [Southwood Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ V) ] solicit the attention of the public, as well as of the profession, to this work. I he authol merits the reward of a double service, by arriving at important truth amid much popului error and by laying this truth before the world in a diction and with a demonstration which most powerfully recommend it to the j udgment. It brings forward the opinions of confiict- ina sects with equal candour and perspicuity: it subjects to the ordeal of reason what expe¬ rience cannot reach,.and it tests by experience what reason has approved : it neither devotes itself to empty speculation nor to abstract dogmatism: its business us With practical truth. Where novel opinions are hazarded, the arguments which convinced the writer are laid before his reader: where old opinions are impugned, the reasons for objection are fully stated: no doctrine, however roughly handled, is condemned by mere authority ; no assertion, however feasible, is suffered to go forth unsustained by evidence.’'1—West. Rev., April. “The work just analysed is the best which we have ever perused on the subject offerer ; and in bur conscience, we believe it the best that ever flowed from the pen of physician in any’age or country. The language is uncommonly elegant, always perspicuous, and in the highest degree illustrative of the ideas and precepts which are meant to be conveyed, t he work will establish, on the firmest basis, the talents, the erudition, and the judgment of the author, for ages yet to come.”—Medko-Ckirurgical Review, April. Also, THE USE OF THE DEAD TO THE LIVING. Third 1c rl i firm WORKS BY JEREMY BENTHAM, ESQ., PUBLISHED BY EFFINGHAM WILSON, 88, ROYAL EXCHANGE. INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGISLATION. “In this work the author has given to the public his enlarged and en¬ lightened views, and has laboured for all nations, and tor ages yet to come. -—Edinb. Review. Second Edition ; in I wo Vols. 8vo. with Povhait, £1 . Is. boatds. A few Proof Impressions of the Portrait, on quarto size, may he had separately, Price 5s. FRAGMENT ON GOVERNMENT, Being a Critique on Blackstone’s Commentaries. «English literature hardly affords any specimens of a more correct, concise, and perspicuous style, than that of the Fragment on Government.”— Edinb. Review. Second Edition; 8vo., Price 8s. hoards. PLAN OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM; WITH REASONS FOR EVERY ARTICLE. With an Introduction, showing the Necessity of Radical, and the Inadequacy of Moderate Reform. Second Edition ; in One Volume Svo., Price 5s. hoards. E LEM ENTS OF THE ART OF PACKING, As applied to Special Juries. In One Volume, 8vo., Price 10s. 6d. hoards.
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