ABSTRACT

From the art of Pauper Economy, studied with any attention, the transition is unavoidable to the ministering art of book-keeping … book-keeping was one of the arts which I should have to learn … the cries of the poor called aloud and accelerated the demands for it …

(Jeremy Bentham UC, cliiia: 33-4)

Philosophy requires both critical and logical destruction and patient hermeneutic reconstruction.