Rights of Man, Part II, chap. n

25. Rights of Man, Part II, chap. u : It is impossible that such governments as hâve hitherto existed in the world, wuuld hâve commenced by any other means than a total violation of every principle, sacred and moral.

26. Ibid., Part I, Miscellaneous chapter : That civil government is necessary, ail civilised nations will agrée : but civil government is Republican government.

27. Rights of Man, Part II, chap. i : a national association acting on the principle s of society. — Chap. m : no more than some common centre in wilich ail the parts of society unité. — Chap. iv : Government is nothing more than a national association for the good of ail, as vvell individually as collectively. Every man wishes to pursue his occupation, and to enjoy the fruits of his labors and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and wilh the least possible expense. When those things are accompli shed, ail the objects for which government ought to be cstablished are answered.

28. Political Justice, Book II, Principles of Society, chap. i(2" éd., vol. I, p. 125) ; Bien associated at first for the sake of mutual assistance. They did not foresee that any restraint would be necessary, to regulate the conduct of individual members of the society, towards each other, or towards the whole. The necessity of restraint grew out of the errors and IHîrveraeness of the fevv. — Et Godwin cite le passage de Paine, Common Sensé, p. 1.

29. Inversement, je ne trouve qu'une seule allusion à Godwin dans l'œuvre de Ben t ha m : une simple plaisanterie dans une lettre privée /Bowring, vol. X, p. 59 : lettre à Bowring, du 30 janv. 1827). —Le docteur Parr, ancien ami de Godwin et ami intime de Bentham, écrit à Rentham, le 23 déc. 1804 : ... I shall mention you in the pulpit by name — nothing shall protect you — fear nothing, for you will find me not very distant from you in principle : and I shall hâve occasion to commend the correct and logical vvay in which you s ta te your opinions. Not so doth Godwin and his French follovvers.

318 NOTES. (Pp. 74-82)

30. Book I, cliap, m and iv (l 1 * éd.), ebâp. rv (2* éd.). La deuxième édition tient compte, ce que ne faisait pav 1» première, de ce que Godwin

appelle « the efîects of antenatal impressions and original structure ».

3t. Pot. Just.j Book I, chap. vin (Ist éd.). — Cliap. iv (2« éd.).

32. Pot. Jusi. y Book I, chap. ix (supprimé dans la deuxième édition).