ABSTRACT
In recent years, the most intimate relation with the work of the college has been in connection with the fine project, initiated by some, at last to publish a proper edition of the works of Jeremy Bentham. Bentham was a great thinker, who was the inspiration of many who were, whose manuscripts are deposited in the library and whose skeleton is still preserved in a cabinet in one of the main arcades. In many academic circles, even at the present day, Bentham is conceived as a moral philosopher: refutations of his particular version of Utilitarian ethics have long been the stock in trade of the sterile and pretentious. Bentham's position in history — his unassailable position — is that of a great law reformer and a great inventor of constitutional and administrative devices. The reader of Bentham's Plan for an Universal and Perpetual Peace may thrill to its vision and applaud its contemptuous dismissal of superstition and prejudice.
