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31: 790: 305:, with Holyoake opposing it as the principle of the workhouse which blamed the poor for their poverty, while to Greg and Martineau this was a law of nature encouraging responsibility and self-improvement. Chapman asked Herbert Spencer to write about this divisive matter for the first issue, and Spencer's "A Theory of Population, deduced from the General Law of Animal Fertility" actually appeared in the second issue, supporting the painful 369:
After a change of ownership in 1887, when it converted to a monthly, it ceased to function on the same progressive and intellectual level. John Chapman died in Paris on the 25th November 1894, as the result of being run over by a cab, and his wife Hannah took over the editorship of the
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funded a new Radical review, to be edited (informally) by J S Mill, and called the ‘’London Review’’. Shortly after, Molesworth bought the Westminster Review’’ and merged the two; and from April 1836 to March 1840 the journal resulting from the merger was published under the title
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in place of Mill as editor. Though financial difficulties continued, Mill concluded of the period that “it is highly creditable to him that he was able to maintain, in some tolerable degree, the character of the Review as an organ of radicalism and progress”.
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The review quickly reached a circulation of three thousand, but, despite that, was not able to break even; and when by 1828 the original funding was exhausted it was sold to another proprietor and no longer functioned in the Radical interest.
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opposite Chapman's house. These authors met during that summer to give their support to this flagship of free thought and reform, joined by others including
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as "the fundamental principle" of what she and Chapman called the "Law of Progress". The group was divided over the work of
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was an independent London-based quarterly that published from July 1827 to July 1846 (volume 37). In October 1846 the
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over theology and praising the usefulness of Darwin's ideas while expressing professional reservations about Darwin's
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was published in October 1851 (volume 56, no. 2); after that issue the journal was published under the title
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also published many articles in these early years while serving as Bentham's personal secretary.
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Benthamite Reviewing. The First Twelve Years of the Westminster Review, 1824–1836
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and gave evolutionary ideas backing in the ensuing debate. The term "
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could form new species. In 1886 the Review published an essay by
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and continued thus until it ceased publication in 1914.
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Jeremy Bentham
United Kingdom
British
Philosophical Radicals
James Mill
liberal
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
Edinburgh Review
Whig party
Nuttall Encyclopædia
Francis Place
breeches
John Neal
Sir William Molesworth
William Edward Hickson
John Chapman
Strand, London
George Eliot
Francis Newman
W. R. Greg
Harriet Martineau
Herbert Spencer
The Economist
John Stuart Mill
William Benjamin Carpenter
Robert Chambers
George J. Holyoake
Thomas Huxley

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