Essays on the Characteristics [of Lord Shaftesbury]

viii, 406 pp. 8vo. Contains a defense of Utilitarianism praised by John Stuart Mill (Westminster Review vol. xxix, p. 477, via 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume 4). Brown went on to write a popular satirical work entitled Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (1757-8). The essays included here are: On Ridicule Considered as a Test of Truth; On the Obligations of Man to Virtue, and the Necessity of Religious Principle; On Revealed Religion, and Christianity.