Word: benthamism
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...stuffed shirt was literally what they were honoring. When Jeremy Bentham, famed economist-philosopher, died at 84, he left to the University of London his body, to be dissected in the presence of friends. In his will he provided that "my skeleton will be caused to be put together in such a manner as that the whole figure may be seated in the chair usually occupied by me when living, in the attitude in which I was sitting when engaged in thought." Jeremy Bentham's bones were dressed up in his own garments, topped off with a wax effigy...
Chief exponent of laissez-faire as a political doctrine, Bentham developed a philosophy of utilitarianism whose catchword became "the greatest happiness of the greatest number." Bashful, eccentric, fond of giving names to things, he spent his last year in a house he called "The Hermitage," whose dining room was to him "The Shop." A crusty personage, he might invite you to spend the day, not bother to give you a meal until 10 p.m. When Mme de Stael visited London she gushed: "Tell Bentham I will see nobody until I have seen him." Grunted Jeremy Bentham: "Sorry...
Only female M. P. to sit through the entire afternoon, night and morning debate was Miss Ethel Bentham (Laborite). After less than two hours' recess, the House convened again as the Committee of Supply, voted down a motion by Sir Austen Chamberlain to censure the Government for failing to alleviate unemployment. In the stodgy debate which followed (but got nowhere), Prime Minister MacDonald announced that, on the basis of a proposal by Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, the Liberal and Labor parties will pool their "best brains" in a conference to devise "work schemes." Efforts had been made to induce...
...gold-frogged gown and many-curled wig, the Right Honorable Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, "possessor," according to Jeremy Bentham, "of a multitude of heterogeneous scraps of power too various to be enumerated," ruled some months ago that the section of Canada's constitution forbidding women from holding legislative office was a "completely outmoded relic of medieval civilization." Last week the appointment of Mrs. Norman MacKay Wilson, first woman ever to serve in the Canadian Senate, was announced by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and her appointment officially approved by Governor-General Viscount Willingdon...
...midnight, Bentham returns, not very "Welcome Home" from six years of South America, lets himself into his boyhood brownstone house, where not even the Irish caretaker is stirring. Memories of his late irascible father haunt him as he climbs to his old room which is filled with prep-school photos and trophies and the heavy perfume of flowers. In the sudden electricity, the most beautiful girl he ever saw sits bolt upright in the middle of his old bed, and orders him out of the house. He returns next day to find her vanished. But Author Miller can be relied...