Editing Roget's Thesaurus (section)

== History ==
It was released to the public on 29 April 1852.<ref>Hüllen{{full citation needed|reason=Which title? 2004 or 2009?|date=February 2022}}</ref>{{page needed|date=February 2020}} Roget was inspired by the [[Utilitarianism|Utilitarian]] teachings of Jeremy Bentham and wished to help "those who are painfully groping their way and struggling with the difficulties of composition {{omission}} this work processes to  hold out a helping hand".<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=How to be Really Well Informed in Minutes: All you need to know about everything that matters from the popular 'Briefing' columns|publisher=Ebury Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0-09194-706-4|location=Croydon|pages=74–77}}</ref> The [[Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum (Jacksonville)|Karpeles Library Museum]] houses the original manuscript in its collection.<ref name=karpeles/>

Roget's schema of classes and their subdivisions is based on the philosophical work of [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz|Leibniz]] (see {{Format link|Leibniz#Symbolic thought}}),{{cn|date=February 2022}} itself following a long tradition of [[epistemological]] work starting with [[Aristotle]]. Some of [[Aristotle's Categories]] are included in Roget's first class, "abstract relations".