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a supporter of the Northern cause and he was at that time
trying to get a bill through parliament for women's suffrage.
That was some time ago. It was tabled, but he was a man of
ideas and was surrounded by men of ideas. Some were brilliant;
some were kind of nutty.

I will talk a little bit now about the nutty Englishmen
with whom he is associated, and in some ways himself. He even
liked nuttiness to the extent that he advocated, "People should be
eccentric." He thought that that was a better world. Every-
body acted differently. When you try to hammer that into the
categorical imperative you kind of come to a stultifying
situation.

He was born in 1806. His father, James, was a university
graduate, University of Edinburgh, a Scot. His father was
Chief Examiner of India House, that is the president of the
East India Company. I've heard it being compared in our day
to being president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, in terms
of the social position that the job held, or president of IT&T.
When the baby John Stuart was two, his father was developing
a very close friendship with a 60 year old Oxford scholar and
writer, Jeremy Bentham. Bentham was kind of a child prodigy
and had a very interesting, a very prolific life of writing.
He wrote on law; he was an inventor; and this is where we
start getting a little bit different, he designed prisons.
He would name things and he had a panopticon prison, which
was designed for minimum escape risks. Air, sunshine, it

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