Sir George Cornewall Lewis
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Lewis
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Statesman and scholar whose Government of Dependencies applied Benthamite principles to colonial policy.
In 1841, Sir George Cornewall Lewis published his Government of Dependencies.
The Rights of War and Peace
British statesman and author of Government of Dependencies.
Sir George Cornewall Lewis’s “Government of Dependencies” is characterized by the accuracy of its information It is a reliable text book for the guidance of any nation in the treatment of its dependencies and colonies.
This section embraces such names as Grotius, Plato, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Adam Smith, Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Walter Batgehot, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Machiavelli, as well as those builders of Ideal Governments, More, Bacon, Campanella and Rousseau.