BAILEY, SAMUEL, a writer on politics, political economy, mental philosophy, and other subjects, was b. in 1791 in Sheffield, where afterwards he became a banker. lie d. Jan. 18, 1870. leaving £90,000 as a bequest to the town. his works are: Essays on the Pursuit of Truth and on the Progress of Knowledge (1821); Questions for Discussion in Poli ties, Political Economy, and other Departments of Knowledge (1S23); A Critical Dissertation on the Nature, Measures, and Causes of Value (1825); A Letter to a Political Economist, occasioned by an Article in the Westminster Review on the Subject of Value (1826); Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions (1829)—a sequel to his work on the Ple rsuit of Truth; A Discussion of Parliamentary Reform (1831); The Rationale of Political Pep resentation (1835); The Right of Primogeniture Eva mined (1837); Money and its Vicissitudes in Value (1837); A Defense of Joint-stock Banks and Country Issues (1840); A Rerkw of Berkeley's Theory of Vision (1842); A Letter to a Philosopher in Reply to some Recent Attempts to Vindicate Berkeley's Theory of Vision (1843); The Theory of Reasoning (1851); Discourses on Various Subjects, Literary and Philosophical (1852); Letters on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (three series, 1855, 1858, 1863); On the Received Text of Shakespeare's Dramatic Writings, aiid its Improvement (2 vols., 1862, 1866).
Mr. B.'s works on the Pursuit of Truth, and the Publication of Opinions gave a great impetus to liberal and advanced views. His writings generally arc distinguished by inde pendent thinking, logical precision, a careful English style, and warm aspirations for the improvement of mankind. His treatises on the mind, while abounding in original suggestions, expand and enforce the views of the school of Locke in metaphysics, and what is termed the doctrine of utility in morals.