Bentham differs from Rousseau not in the conclusions he recommends so much as in the language in which he clothes them.

Either make a final end of the optimism of men like Hume and Blackstone, or the veneration for the past which is at the root of Burke's own teaching.
It is easy to see why thought such as this should have given the stimulus it did.

Montesquieu came to praise the British constitution at a time when good men were aghast at its perversion.

There was no room in many years for revolution, but at least there was place for hearty discontent and a seeking after new methods.

Of that temper two men so different as the elder Pitt and Wilkes are the political symbols.