Benthamites
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Followers of Bentham applying the principle of utility to legislation, praised for method but criticized for overgeneralizing human happiness.
he cannot perceive, as Bentham and his disciples saw, or thought they saw, a definite principle by the application whereof bad laws might in every case be either got rid of or amended.
Bentham and his disciples have displayed a tendency to underestimate the diversity between human beings.
The Benthamites, therefore, were as a rule democrats, and the English democrats of 1830 were as a rule Benthamites, yet for all this there was no necessary connection between Benthamism and the democratic creed.