[150] I need not speak of Brougham, then the most conspicuous advocate of Whiggism. He published in 1843 a Political Philosophy, which, according to Lord Campbell, killed the 'Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.' No such hypothesis is necessary to account for the death of a society encumbered by a 'Dictionary of Universal Biography.' But the book was bad enough to kill, if a collection of outworn platitudes can produce that effect.
[151] Bentham's Works, x. 536.
[152] Colloquies, i. 253.
[153] Colloquies, i. 171.
[154] Ibid. i. 178.
[155] Ibid. i. 169.
[156] Ibid. i. 167.
[157] Ibid. i. 170.
[158] Ibid. i. 194.
[159] Ibid. ii. 247.