Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Meaning of Truth in History: Being the Creighton Lecture for the Year 1913-14, Delivered Before the University on March 6th, 1914
I will refer first to the shortcomings of a really remarkable Englishman. The case of Jeremy Bentham is notable. He ignored the light which history had to throw on the institutions about which he was writing, and his reputation thereby suffered. He rendered great services to the cause of law reform in England and elsewhere by the force of his destructive criticism. The very abstractness of his methods added to the incisiveness of this criticism. But when he describes, and even where he brings an indictment that is obviously true, he is, generally speaking, utterly defective as an his-s.
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