Indeed, her devotion to the idea of mankind, conceived as a collective whole, is not so much characteristic of Positivists as of the greatest modern minds, minds such as Lessing, bentham, Shelley, Mill, Mazzini, and Victor Hugo.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
This is most clearly illustrated by the other thinker Jeremy bentham.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
But it is characteristic that bentham was not, during the eighteenth century, a Radical at all.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
