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Jeremy Bentham
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Definition:[1748 - 1832]the 19th-century advocate of animal welfare, prison reform, universal suffrage, and gay rights, has been sitting in a corridor at University College London since 1850. The Moral philosopher had left a will with specific instructions on the treatment of his corpse: His skeleton and mummified head should be clad in a black suit, seated upright on a chair in a wooden cabinet and under a placard reading AUTO ICON.The Atlas Obscura Page-a-Day Calendar, entry for Wednesday, February 21, 2018---He is considered the founder of utilitarianism.
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the theory which makes happiness the end of life and the test of virtue, and maintains that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, and wrong as they tend to produce the reverse," [...]The great apostle of this theory was John Stuart Mill, and the great father of it Jeremy Bentham.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia. (1907)
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He read another article, too, a financial one, which alluded to Bentham and Mill, and dropped some innuendoes reflecting on the ministry.Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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Though Jeremy Bentham's skeleton, which hangs for candelabra in the library of one of his executors, correctly conveys the idea of a burly-browed utilitarian old gentleman, with all Jeremy's other leading personal characteristics; yet nothing of this kind could be inferred from any leviathan's articulated bones.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
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SINCE the world began there have been two Jeremys. The one wrote a Jeremiad about usury, and was called Jeremy Bentham.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: Diddling (1843)
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