The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 8
An 11 volume collection of the works of Jeremy Bentham edited by the philosophic radical and political reformer John Bowring. Vol. 8 contains Chrestomathia: Being A Collection Of Papers, Explanatory Of The Design Of A Chrestomathic School; A Fragment On Ontology; Essay On Logic; Essay On Language; Fragments On Universal Grammar; Tracts On Poor Laws And Pauper Management.; Three Tracts Relative To Spanish And Portuguese Affairs; Letters To Count Toreno, On The Proposed Penal Code; Securities Against Misrule, Adapted To A Mahommedan State.
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The Works of Jeremy Bentham, published under the Superintendence of his Executor, John Bowring (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1838-1843). In 11 vols. Volume 8.
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Table of Contents
- CHRESTOMATHIA: BEING A COLLECTION OF PAPERS, EXPLANATORY OF THE DESIGN OF AN INSTITUTION, PROPOSED TO BE SET ON FOOT UNDER THE NAME OF THE CHRESTOMATHIC DAY SCHOOL, OR CHRESTOMATHIC SCHOOL, FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE NEW SYSTEM OF INSTRUCTION TO THE HIGHER BRANCHES OF LEARNING, FOR THE USE OF THE MIDDLING AND HIGHER RANKS IN LIFE.
- INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR.
- FIRST PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- SECOND PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- CHRESTOMATHIC (a) INSTRUCTION TABLES. TABLE I.
- CHRESTOMATHIC INSTRUCTION TABLES. TABLE II.
- APPENDIX. No. I.
- APPENDIX.—No. II.
- APPENDIX.—No. III.
- APPENDIX.—No. IV.: ESSAY ON NOMENCLATURE AND CLASSIFICATION.*
- APPENDIX.—No. V.
- APPENDIX.—No. VI.
- APPENDIX.—No. VII.
- APPENDIX.—No. VIII.
- APPENDIX No. IX.
- A FRAGMENT ON ONTOLOGY; NOW FIRST PUBLISHED, FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF JEREMY BENTHAM.
- INTRODUCTION.
- CHAPTER I.: CLASSIFICATION OF ENTITIES.
- CHAPTER II.: FICTITIOUS ENTITIES CLASSIFIED.
- ESSAY ON LOGIC: NOW FIRST PUBLISHED, FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF JEREMY BENTHAM.
- CHAPTER I.: Logic—What?
- CHAPTER II.: LOGIC, ITS CHARACTERISTICS.
- CHAPTER III.: Præcognita: or, Preliminary and General Indications concerning Logic, according to the Aristotelians.
- CHAPTER IV.: OF ARISTOTLE’S PREDICAMENTS AND POSTPREDICAMENTS.
- CHAPTER V.*: MODE OF DISCUSSION.
- CHAPTER VI.: RELATION OF LOGIC TO THE BUSINESS OF HUMAN LIFE IN GENERAL, AND THEREIN TO ARTS AND SCIENCES, i. e. TO DISCIPLINES.
- CHAPTER VII.: CLEARNESS IN DISCOURSE, HOW TO PRODUCE IT? AND HENCE OF EXPOSITION.
- CHAPTER VIII.: OF DIVISION.
- CHAPTER IX.: OF METHODIZATION, OTHERWISE TERMED ARRANGEMENT.†‡
- CHAPTER X.: OF THE ART OF INVENTION.
- APPENDIX.—A.
- APPENDIX B. DIVISION OF ART AND SCIENCE.†
- ESSAY ON LANGUAGE; NOW FIRST PUBLISHED, FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF JEREMY BENTHAM.
- INTRODUCTION.
- CHAPTER I.: MODES OR FORMS OF WHICH DISCOURSE OR LANGUAGE HAS BEEN FOUND SUSCEPTIBLE, VIZ. AUDIBLE, VISIBLE, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE SUBSTITUTES.
- CHAPTER II.: USES OF LANGUAGE.
- CHAPTER III.: OPERATIONS WHICH, IN THE CHARACTER OF AN ART, ARE PERFORMABLE IN RELATION TO DISCOURSE, OR LANGUAGE IN GENERAL.
- CHAPTER IV.: PROPERTIES DESIRABLE IN A LANGUAGE.
- CHAPTER V.: OF IMPROVEMENT CONSIDERED AS APPLICABLE TO LANGUAGE, OR THE MEANS BY WHICH, IN SO FAR AS THE PARTICULAR LANGUAGE EMPLOYED BY AN INDIVIDUAL ADMITS OF THE POSSESSION OF THEM, THE PROPERTIES DESIRABLE IN LANGUAGE MAY, ON EACH OCCASION, BE SECURED.
- CHAPTER VI.: ANALYTICAL VIEW OF THE MATTER OF THOUGHT AND INTERNAL ACTION; CORRESPONDENT VIEW OF THE MATTER OF LANGUAGE.
- FRAGMENTS ON UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR; NOW FIRST PUBLISHED, FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF JEREMY BENTHAM.
- CHAPTER I.: DEFINITIONS.
- CHAPTER II.: USES OF UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR.
- CHAPTER III.: OF THE PARTS OF SPEECH.
- CHAPTER IV.: OF THE NOUN-SUBSTANTIVE.
- CHAPTER V.: OF THE ADJECTIVE.
- CHAPTER VI.: OF PRONOUNS.*
- CHAPTER VII.: OF VERBS.
- CHAPTER VIII.‡: OF GOVERNMENT AND CONCORD.
- CHAPTER IX.: OF PREPOSITIONS, ADVERBS, AND CONJUNCTIONS.
- CHAPTER X.: OF INTERJECTIONS.
- TRACTS ON POOR LAWS AND PAUPER MANAGEMENT.
- SITUATION AND RELIEF OF THE POOR.
- OUTLINE OF A WORK ENTITLED PAUPER MANAGEMENT IMPROVED.
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE POOR BILL, INTRODUCED BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM PITT (WRITTEN, FEBRUARY, 1797.)
- THREE TRACTS RELATIVE TO SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE AFFAIRS; WITH A CONTINUAL EYE TO ENGLISH ONES.
- Letter to the Spanish Nation on a then (Anno 1820) proposed House of Lords.
- TRACT, No. II.: Observations on Judge Advocate Hermosa’s Panegyric on Judicial Delays; on the Occasion of the Impunity as yet given by him to the loyal Authors of the Cadiz Massacre, a counterpart to the Manchester Massacre; explaining, moreover, the Effects of secrecy in judicature.
- Letter to the Portuguese Nation, on antiquated Constitutions; on the Spanish Constitution considered as a whole, and on certain defects observable in it; in particular, the immutability-enacting, or infallibility-assuming, the non-re-eligibility-enacting, the sleep-compelling, and the bienniality-enacting clauses.
- LETTERS TO COUNT TORENO, ON THE PROPOSED PENAL CODE, DELIVERED IN BY THE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE OF THE SPANISH CORTES, APRIL 25TH, 1821.
- SECURITIES AGAINST MISRULE, ADAPTED TO A MAHOMMEDAN STATE, AND PREPARED WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO TRIPOLI IN BARBARY.
- NOTE BY THE EDITOR.
- CHAPTER I.: PRELIMINARY EXPLANATIONS.
- CHAPTER II.: PUBLIC OPINION THE SOLE REMEDY—PARALLEL BETWEEN THE PUBLIC-OPINION TRIBUNAL AND THE OFFICIAL JUDICATORIES.
- CHAPTER III.: NOTIFICATION AND PUBLICATION IN REFERENCE TO SECURITIES.
- CHAP. IV.: THE SECURITIES IN DETAIL.
- CHAPTER V.: HOPES OF SUCCESS FOR ANY PROJECT HAVING SUCH SECURITIES FOR ITS END.
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