...fragmentary component parts of my knowledge and beliefs. It gave unity to my conceptions of things. I now had opinions, a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy;...be made the principal outward purpose of a life."* Bentham sought to save the ethics of utility by generalizing the principle of self-interest into that...

...understood and applied it, gave unity to his hitherto detached and fragmentary conceptions, and he adds, " I now had opinions, a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy,...be made the principal outward purpose of a life." He says in another important passage that/" the best of unbelievers are more genuinely religious in...

...time. The first one he acquired by reading the TraM de Legislation, and it is thus described : *— " I now had opinions ; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy...principal outward purpose of a life. And I had a grand [Utopian] conception laid before me of changes to be effected in the condition of mankind through that...

...— can be made consistent with one, with a religion " in one of the best senses of the word " — of a religion " the inculcation and diffusion of which...made the principal outward purpose of a life," and would thus supply an object of practical devotion ! An answer, if it did not suggest itself, would...

...fragmentary component parts of my knowledge and beliefs. It gave unity to my conceptions of things. I now had opinions ; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy...be made the principal outward purpose of a life." In his seventeenth year an appointment under his father in one of the East India Company's offices...

...fragmentary component parts of my knowledge and beliefs. It gave unity to my conceptions of things. I now had opinions; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy...word, a religion; the inculcation and diffusion of ^hich could be made the principal outward purpose of a life." In his seventeenth year an appointment...

...being. It was the dropping of the keystone into the arch of previously fragmentary belief. It gave him "a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy: in one among the...religion ; the inculcation and diffusion of which would be made the principal outward purpose of a life." The progress of the race would be henceforward...

...first read and studied Bentham, and of the confidence with which he felt that he had found in him " a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy ; in one among the best senses of the word, a religion," with the description of his own state, when his education, with its precocious and premature tendency...

...and fragmentary component parts of my knowledge and belief. It gave unity to my conception of things. I now had opinions ; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy, in one among the best senses of the word,' he adds, ' a religion.' In the following year he began to write independently. In 1823 he was appointed...

...which he had read four or five years before, formed the keystone of his previous position. It gave him 'a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy ; in one among...be made the principal outward purpose of a life.' The crisis under which his enthusiasm for his old creed and opinions broke down was attributed by himself...