In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;–in that of poets of amusement–in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition, –and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument. Jeremy Bentham
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In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument. It is difficult to imagine a form more common to man than that which he carries about with him as his purveyor and his instrument.

Source: The Panopticon Writings

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