…Benthamism is infinitely to be preferred to Hegelianism, which gave us Marxism and Prussianism and all kinds of horrors, whereas Bentham gave us Chadwick and decent sewage systems and proper municipal government and things like that, all of which are wholly…

…that it was a good thing to be clean. It's interesting in this context to read about the early efforts of the disciples of Bentham, the utilitarian philosopher, to clean up London. For a long time, the rich in London who lived in their part of the town…