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Jeremy Bentham: Syncretistic Utilitarian, William Day
Jeremy Bentham: Syncretistic Utilitarian, William Day
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
During the period of reaction in England after the Napoleonic wars, a new generation of reformers developed, who abjured the belief in natural rights already discredited by the Jacobin excesses.1 These individuals sought a personality around whom they could center their program. Jeremy Bentham, a seemingly apolitical man, gradually became the personification of the new methodology. Crane Brinton has written, "scarcely has an English thinker left a more definite trice upon English legislation than Jeremy Bentham."2 So involved are the implications of the system and the man who introduced the new science" that interest is produced by the …
The Haven Of Harmonie, 1814-1824, Irene Strouse
The Haven Of Harmonie, 1814-1824, Irene Strouse
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This thesis attempts to present a view of the Harmonist Society during its period in Indiana, 1814-1824 and to fit it into the framework of the times.
The Indonesian Army 1950-1958, James Bigelow
The Indonesian Army 1950-1958, James Bigelow
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
If a man could somehow snap a picture of the world today, a viewer one hundred years hence would certainly notice its many revolutionary characteristics. Perhaps the most important of these relates to the growth of non-Western nationalism and modernization, the "revolution of rising expectations," which has resulted in the formation of many new nations within the last twenty years, led by Western-trained intellectuals in many cases. These new leaders have been faced with the problem that their fellow countrymen do not necessarily share their beliefs in or understanding of nationalism.
The leaders, many of them young, have had to …
A History Of Baptists In Clinton County, Timothy Cantrell
A History Of Baptists In Clinton County, Timothy Cantrell
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The purpose of this study is to present some of the history of the Baptist Church in Clinton County, Kentucky. A detailed study of the early church in the county also presents a picture of the county's social history as well because of the very close association between the individual and his church.
The scope of this study does not lend itself to presentation of the individual histories of all the Baptist churches in the county. It is, rather, the purpose of the author to cover the history of Baptists in the county by tracing the history of their two …