LA NAISSANCE DU RADICALISME

1. Il y eut en Angleterre des a Panopticicns >. avant qu'il y eût des « Bentbamites »>, des « Utilitaires », des « Radicaux Philosophiques ». Notamment le docteur Parr. V. Bowring, vol.X, p. 403: Romilly à Bentham, 13 fév. 1803: Dear Bentham, — I wish you would dine with me on Tues-

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day ncxt at fi\c o'clock, and mest your profound admirer and uni versai panegyrist, Dr. Parr... The first thing he said to me the olher day when 1 met him in thc street was, that he hoped I was a Panoptician; and the second, that he had had a long conversation about you with Charles Fox ; so that you may see that he has formed a party for you — has given it a name, — and is canvassing for the ablest recruits to it.

2. Bowring, \ol. X, p. 458: Benthaui à Mulford, 1 er nov. 1810: now at lcngth, when 1 am just ready to drop into the grave... — Bow ri ng, vol. X, p. 250 : I do not like to look among Panopticon papers. It is like opening a drawer wherc devils are locked np — it is break ing into a haunted house. (Propos de Bentham recueilli par Bowring). — Vol. XI, p. 103: Never does the current of my thought alight upon the Panopticon and its fate, but my heart sinks within me (écrit en 1830-1831).

3. Bowring, vol. XI, pp. 116-117 : Bentham à George Rose, 23 fév. 1798.

4. Bowring, vol. XI, p. 139 : Bentham à Charles Abbot, 3 sept. 1802.

5. Panopikon vertus New Soulh Wales : or, the Panopticon Penitentiary System, and the Pénal Colonisation System, compared. In a Letter addrcssed to the Right Honourable lord Pelham ; Bowring, vol. IV, pp. 173 sqq.

6. A Plea for the Constitution : Showing the euonnities commit ted, to the oppression of British subjccts, innocentas well as guilty; in breach of Magna Charta, thc Pétition of Right, the Habeas Corpus Acl., and the Bill of Kights. As likcwise of the several Transportation Acts, in and by the Design, Foundation and Government of the Pénal Colony of New South Wales: including an Inquiry into the Right of the Crown to Legislate without Parlia ment in Trinidad, and olher British Colonies; Bowring, vol. IV, pp. 249 sqq.