Date: 1783
Children's "minds, like a sheet of white paper, are susceptible to every impression"
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Date: 1789
"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure."
preview | full record— Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)
Date: 1789
"In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire [pain and pleasure]: but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while"
preview | full record— Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)