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  • Smiles, oil painting by Sir George Reid; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
    In Samuel Smiles

    …edited the progressive and reformist Leeds Times. His radicalism was a practical application of the doctrines of the utilitarian philosophers (“philosophical radicals”) Jeremy Bentham and James Mill. He was a zealous advocate of material progress based on individual enterprise and free trade. From 1845 to 1866 he was engaged in…

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