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It assumed that each of these, given liberation from the special privilege of the ancien régime, had the full means of happiness at his disposal; it accepted, in a word, the principles of Benthamite radicalism as absolute.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski discusses the assumptions of Benthamite radicalism regarding individual happiness.

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