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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2009
The influence exerted by the ideas of Jeremy Bentham has been a matter of controversy over many years. Assessments have varied greatly—ranging from the extravagantly generous to the utterly dismissive—but there has been broad agreement on the loci for investigation. Attention has focused on the social, administrative, and legal reforms of the Victorian age. The aim here is to explore a different and relatively neglected area—the part played by Bentham's thought in shaping the attitudes and programme of the nineteenth-century British peace movement.
I should like to thank Professor Fred Rosen for his comments on an earlier version of this paper, and the owners and custodians of the manuscript collections from which I quote or which I cite in the succeeding footnotes.
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