From Works by Jeremy Bentham

      " it was by fancying that everything could be done by putting together a parcel of phrases, expressive of the respective imports of certain words, mostly of certain general words, without any such trouble as that of applying experiment or observation to individual things, that, for little less than two thousand years, the followers of Aristotle kept art and science nearly at a stand "¹

      [Ogden : As such, the method of the Aristotelians] " was not simply worthless, it was positively pernicious.  It was pernicious by drawing aside and keeping mankind for so many ages out of the only instructive track of study . .  " etc.

    ¹ [Vol. VIII], p. 110. [Continued Bentham : "But out of an ill-directed pursuit, it will sometimes happen that useful results may collaterally, and, as it were by a side-wind, be brought to light.", comparing the Aristotelian logic to alchemy and universal medicine. (WPT)]

Bentham's Theory of Fictions by Charles Kay Ogden
New York     London : Harcourt etc., ; Kegan Paul etc., 1932, p. lxix.