Jeremy Bentham, like many great thinkers, survives in the memory of men by the teaching of disciples which he would not always have endorsed, and by the fragmentary application of scraps of his thought. The amazing range of his mind is unrealised, his works unread. To those best qualified to judge he is 'the greatest social engineer in history'; the reforms which he initiated and inspired have profoundly modified the law, the penal system, democratic government, the imperial constitution, education, and the theory of language to the form in which they exist today. As an architect of the modern spirit he stands for economic individualism ; the system that, seeking the greatest happiness of the greatest number in the free play of competition in industry, has resulted in modern capitalism.