Ibid. Préface

20. Introductiont ch. X, xxxviii (Bowring, vol. I, p. 57) : Strictly speaking, habit, being but a fictitious enlity, and not really anything distinct (rom the acts or perceptions by which it issaid tobe formed, cannot be the cause of anything. The enigma, however, may be satisfactorily solved upon the principle of association, of the nature and force of which a very satisfactory account may be seen in Dr. Priestley's édition of Hartley on Man. — Cf. Logical arrangements, Bowring, vol. V. p. 286 : Whcther there ever were a time at which the word happiness failed of presenting to my mind the character of an aggregate, or compound, of which pleasares, and the exemption from corresponding pains, were the sole éléments, is more than at présent I can recoUect. The satisfaction I remember to hâve experienced at the observation of this interprétation, as given to it in the first place by Helvetius (in bis book De l'Esprit), and afterward by Hartley (in bis Treatise on Man, or rather the abridgment of it) aflords some présomption of its being at the first of thèse limes new to me. But perhaps the cause of that satisfaction was not the novelty of the notion in relatioa

iSi NOTES. (Pp. 7-14)

ti> mj own coiu'eptioQs. but thc cirGumatance of sedng the confinnation givon to thtMu in thèse ^vo^ks. — L'édition de Priestlej est citàe dans k riiiu';*.'u> M lottiT \\l, p. iV4:. iiui, putilié en 1791, a^ait été écrit en 1787.

fl. Ht'marks un Rci'L iieiiUie^and Otwaldy p. 1, London, 1174.

ii. CV'sl lo i^Mis-titre dn Traih\

Ï3. TrviUtM\ IVH)k l. Part I, Secl. IV ; (vol. I, p. 321).

t\. TrctUiiH'. IVKjk I. Part I, Seot. I (toI. I, p. 314).