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Bentham, View of Hard-Labour Bill 1778
Bentham, View of Hard-Labour Bill 1778
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Author: Bentham, Jeremy
Title: A View of the Hard-Labour Bill
Place Published: London
Publisher:Printed for T. Payne and Son
Date Published: 1778
Description: [6], 114 pp. Includes 2 pp. table, but no preface or contents. 21.5x14 cm (8½x5½"), modern paper wrappers, custom cloth drop-back case.Jeremy Bentham's laudatory comments on a proposed crime bill which would introduce solitary confinement and promote hard labor on the premise that the governor's salary would be dependent on the profit produced by prison labor. Bentham is considered the founder of modern utilitarianism, and as a reminder and testament to his philosophical legacy, his body can be viewed daily at the University College London's Student Centre. Scarce pamphlet.
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Bentham, View of Hard-Labour Bill 1778

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