"Ah! when will the yoke of Custom--Custom, the blind tyrant, of which all the other tyrants make their slave--ah! when will that misery-perpetuating yoke be shaken off?--when, when will Reason be seated on her throne?"
— Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)
Author
Date
1817
Metaphor
"Ah! when will the yoke of Custom--Custom, the blind tyrant, of which all the other tyrants make their slave--ah! when will that misery-perpetuating yoke be shaken off?--when, when will Reason be seated on her throne?"
Metaphor in Context
Ah! when will the yoke of Custom--Custom, the blind tyrant, of which all the other tyrants make their slave--ah! when will that misery-perpetuating yoke be shaken off?--when, when will Reason be seated on her throne?
(ยง13, p. 495)
(ยง13, p. 495)
Provenance
Reading J. C. D. Clark's English society, 1660-1832, p. 159.
Citation
Jeremy Bentham, Works of Jeremy Bentham. Part X. Edinburgh: William Tait, 1839. <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
06/23/2010
