THE ENGLISH UTILITARIANS
By
LESLIE STEPHEN
LONDON
DUCKWORTH and CO.
3 HENRIETTA STREET, W.C.
1900
PREFACE
[Pg vi]This book is a sequel to my History of English Thought in theEighteenth Century. The title which I then ventured to use was morecomprehensive than the work itself deserved: I felt my inability towrite a continuation which should at all correspond to a similar titlefor the nineteenth century. I thought, however, that by writing anaccount of the compact and energetic school of English Utilitarians Icould throw some light both upon them and their contemporaries. I hadthe advantage for this purpose of having been myself a disciple of theschool during its last period. Many accidents have delayed mycompletion of the task; and delayed also its publication after it waswritten. Two books have been published since that time, which partlycover the same ground; and I must be content with referring my readersto them for further information. They are The English Radicals, byMr. C. B. Roylance Kent; and English Political Philosophy from Hobbesto Maine, by Professor Graham.