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John Quincy Adams Asks, ‘What Is the Intellect?’

In his 1817 “On the Subject of Reason vs. British Empiricism,” John Quincy Adams, who later became the sixth President of the United States (1825-1829), recounted a personal discussion he had with the notorious promoter of pederasty, usury and the “felicific calculus,” the future-mummy Jeremy Bentham, during a visit to his home in Great Britain:

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