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The following cautionary tale, being a brief account of the life of Joseph Lancaster, is offered by way of introduction to the topic of the present chapter. Joseph Lancaster was born in Southwark in 1778. His father’s pension as an old soldier added to his earnings as a sieve-maker gave the family a position ‘decent and comfortable but still not so far raised above the poor as to open the prospects of ambition’. His son Joseph, however, was of exceptional ability. He ran away at the age of fourteen to Jamaica to teach the negro slaves, returned home hoping to join the dissenting ministry, was prevented from doing so by becoming a Quaker, and became a teacher instead.
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Jeremy Bentham, ‘Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation’, in L. A. Selby-Bigge (ed.), British Moralists (Dover, New York 1965), p. 341.
Trust seems to have received little philosophical attention, but see D. O. Thomas, ‘The Duty to Trust’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1978–9).
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. M. Oakeshott (Basil Blackwell, Oxford), pp. 82–3.
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Langford, G. (1985). Accountability. In: Education, Persons and Society. Modern Introductions to Philosophy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17860-5_4
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