In continuing to feather the nests of old-line academe, traditional philanthropists may be missing a chance to change the world. In the past dozen years monopolies and bureaucracies and barriers have been shattered right and left. Choice and competition are the order of the new day.Consider how this new world order has transformed the practice known as philanthropy. The word, in ancient Greek, means "love for one's fellow man." How best to express love for one's fellow man? You could do worse than to heed the British utilitarian Jeremy Bentham: Produce the greatest good for the greatest number. Bentham was so sure he had everything figured out that he had his body preserved and displayed in a glass case after his death, as a guide to future generations.
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