Editing Jeremy Bentham (section)

=== Racial views ===
Bentham believed each race to be different, independent of climate or place of birth. He wrote in ''[[An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation]]'':
{{blockquote|"Another article in the catalogue of secondary circumstances, is that of race or lineage: the national race or lineage a man issues from. This circumstance, independently of that of climate, will commonly make some difference in point of radical frame of mind and body. A man of negro race, born in France or England, is a very different being, in many respects, from a man of French or English race. A man of Spanish race, born in Mexico or Peru, is at the hour of his birth a different sort of being, in many respects, from a man of the original Mexican or Peruvian race. This circumstance, as far as it is distinct from climate, rank, and education, and from the two just mentioned, operates chiefly through the medium of moral, religious, sympathetic, and antipathetic biases".|author=Bentham, Jeremy|title=An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, p. 56}}