Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), author, literary critic, social
commentator and the first editor of the Dictionary of National
Biography, published his two-volume History of English Thought in
the Eighteenth Century (also reissued in this series) in 1876. This
led him to further investigation and study of utilitarianism, whose
proponents believed that human action should be guided by the
principle of ensuring the happiness of the greatest number of
people. While working on many other projects, especially the
Dictionary, and haunted by domestic tragedy in the sudden death of
his second wife in 1895, Stephen struggled for two decades with
this undertaking, calling it the 'utilitarian bog': the
long-awaited three-volume work was finally published in 1900.
Volume 2 examines the life and political background of James Mill
(1773-1836) whose writings were influential in the dissemination of
utilitarianism.
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