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BENTHAM JEREMY: (1748-1832) English philosopher, jurist and social reformer, regarded as the founder... - BENTHAM JEREMY: (1748-1832) English philosopher, jurist and social reformer, regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., being a portion (comprising twelve lines of text, with corrections) of Bentham's original working manuscript of the second edition of Chrestomathia , in part, 'Impracticability, uselessness, mischievousness…..under one or more of these…..qualities with his attack upon it be managed. By the first two his endeavours will be to bring down upon it the contempt by the others…..and the more compleat his persuasion he is convinced   that no one of these qualities do in any degree appertain to it, the more….will be his endeavours to produce in all other…..the assurances that these same qualities…..do really appertain to it' . With slightly irregularly torn and trimmed edges and neatly mounted to a contemporary page removed from an album, annotated in an unidentified hand at the foot, 'A portion of the original MS: of the second edition of the “Chrestomathia” by Jeremy Bentham from Dr. Southwood Smith per Swynfen Jervis' . Some light age wear, about VG   Chrestomathia was a collection of papers in which the principles of the Bell and Lancastrian systems of education were applied to the higher branches of learning. The most novel features of this work were the prominence it gave to the study of science and its daring attack on Greek and Latin, which at the time reigned supreme in the process of education.   Thomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861) English physician and sanitary reformer.   Swynfen Jervis (1700-1771) English barrister and auditor of Greenwich Hospital, the father of Admiral John Jervis (1734-1823) 1 st Earl of Saint Vincent.