Contains a defense of Utilitarianism praised by John Stuart Mill

Brown, John

Essays on the Characteristics [of Lord Shaftesbury]

London: Printed for C. Davis against Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn, 1751. First Edition. Full-Leather. Good / No Jacket. Item #2325574

Rebacked, retaining original boards, boards rubbed with some loss and some new leather added along edges, handwritten biographical sketch of author on rear endpapers, owner bookplate, bookseller plate, and owner blind stamp on front endpapers.

viii, 406 pp. 8vo. Contains a defense of Utilitarianism praised by John Stuart Mill (Westminster Review vol. xxix, p. 477, via 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume 4). Brown went on to write a popular satirical work entitled Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (1757-8). The essays included here are: On Ridicule Considered as a Test of Truth; On the Obligations of Man to Virtue, and the Necessity of Religious Principle; On Revealed Religion, and Christianity.

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