A table of the springs of action : shewing the several species of pleasures and pains, of which man's nature is susceptible: together with the several species of interests, desires, and motives, respectively corresponding to them: and the several sets of appellatives, neutral, eulogistic and dyslogistic, by which each species of motive is wont to be designated: to which are added explanatory notes and observations ... / By Jeremy Bentham, Esq.

  • Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832.
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A table of the springs of action : shewing the several species of pleasures and pains, of which man's nature is susceptible: together with the several species of interests, desires, and motives, respectively corresponding to them: and the several sets of appellatives, neutral, eulogistic and dyslogistic, by which each species of motive is wont to be designated: to which are added explanatory notes and observations ... / By Jeremy Bentham, Esq. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Sold by R. Hunter ..., 1817.

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4 unnumbered pages, 32 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : table ; 22 cm (8vo)

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Colophon: "Printed by R. and A. Taylor, Shoe Lane, London"
"In 1815 Bentham printed, but did not publish, a large folding Table of the Springs of Action ... Two years later in 1817 the pamphlet was published with a cancel title-page (on the verso of which is a new quotation from Helvetius) and a leaf of contents with corrigenda and advertisements of the Plan of Parliamentary reform and Swear not at all" (Arnold Muirhead, "A Jeremy Bentham Collection", The Library, 5th ser., vol.1 (1947), p.19).
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Polytechnic of Central London Note: Binding: C20th cloth. T.p. stamp "Lewes Library Society". Ex Charles Myers Library (Spearman Collection) at the National Institute of Industrial Psychology

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