Nineteenth

Century trends of writing and thought

UTILITARIANS:
ROMANTICS:
Adam Smith, Aim: The greatest
W. Blake,
James Mill, happiness of the
W. Wordsworth,
Jeremy Bentham greatest number
S. Coleridge

Education of
the masses

Human Mind: Association of Human Mind:

PASSIVE Ideas: Locke, ACTIVE
Hartley

Emphasis upon:
Emphasis upon: Imagination and Creative
Reason and memory powers of the mind
What was Useful What was Beautiful and
The material Sublime
The Spiritual

Means: REPETITION
Means: ABSTRACTION &
Memorizing of ready-made adult
CREATION
definitions which allows the
The osmosis external world-
individual to acquire an
human mind allows the individual
encyclopaedic culture, a wide but
to catch a glimpse of the sublime
superficial knowledge.

John Stuart Mill: After Queen Victoria

ascended to the throne, one could not
understand contemporary thought without
Bentham and Coleridge, the two great
seminal minds of England in their age
(1839)