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Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham

CHAPTER VI
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He did not inquire by what right a handful of men were to be hereditary governors of a whole people.

Expediency is no answer to the question, for Bentham was presently to show how shallow was that basis of consent.

Once it is admitted that the personality of men is entitled to respect institutional room must be found for its expression.

The State is morally stunted where their powers go undeveloped.

There is something curious here in Burke's inability to suspect deformity in a system which gave his talents but partial place.


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