e was no place anywhere for me. I was neither dead nor
properly alive. Now I realised the mingled pity, curiosity, and aversion
which I, as a representative of an abhorred epoch, must excite in all
around me; but that Edith Leete must share their feelings was more than
I could bear.

Towards nightfall I entered the subterranean chamber and sat down there,
feeling utterly alone. Presently Edith stood in the door.

"Has it never occurred to you," I said, "that my position is more
utterly alone than any human being's ever was before?"

"Oh, you must not talk in that way. You don't know how it makes me feel
to see you so forlorn," she exclaimed.

I caught her hands in my own. "Are you so blind as not to see why such
kindness as you have all shown me is not enough to make me happy?"

"Are you sure it is not you who are blind?" she said.

That was all; but it was enough, for it told me that this radiant
daughter of a golden age had bestowed upon me not alone her pity, but
her love. And now I first knew what was perhaps the strangest feature of
my strange experience: Edith was the great grand-daughter of no other
than my lost love Edith Bartlett.

JEREMY BENTHAM

Principles of Morals and Legislation

Jeremy Bentham, the son and grandson of attorneys, was born in
London on February 15, 1748. He was called to the Bar, but did not
practise. His fame rests on his work in the fields of
jurisprudence, political science, and ethics. He is accounted the
founder of the "utilitarian" school of philosophy, of which the
theory is that the production of the "greatest happiness of the
greatest number" is the criterion of morals and the aim of
politics. Dying on June 6, 1832, his body, in accordance with his
own wishes, was dissected, and his skeleton dressed in his
customary garb and preserved in the University College, London.
Bentham's failure at the Bar caused him no small disappointment,
and it was not until the publication of a "Fragment on Government"
in 1776 that he felt himself redeemed with public opinion. The
"Principles of Morals and Legislation" was first published in 1789,
but was actually in print nine years earlier. It was primarily
intended as the introductory volume of a complete work designed to
cover the whole field of the principles of legislation--principles
which, as we have seen, were based on that doctrine of uti