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5. Autolringraphy, p. 64-67: M y previous éducation bad been, in a certain sensé, already a course of Benthainisin... Yet in the iirst pages of Bentbam it burst uj>on nie wilh ail the force of novelty... When 1 laid down tbe last volume of the Traité, I had become a ditferent being. The « principle of utility t understood as Benthani understood it, and applied in the manner in whieh lie applied it tbrougb thèse three volumes, fell exactly into the place as the keystone whieh held together thedetached and fragmentary component parts of my knowledge and beliefs. It ga\e unity to rny conceptions of tbings.

6. V. Bowring, vol. X, p. 473: la curieuse lettre de Mill à Bentbam. 28 juillet 1812: <• I nui not going todio, nolwitbstanding your zealto corne in for a Ingacy. However, if I werc to die any time before this pour boy is^ a niau, one of the tbings I bat would pineb me most sorely, would be, tbe being obligée! to leave bis mind unmade to tbe degree of excellence, of wbicb I hope to make it. But anolher tbing is, that the only prospect wbicli would lessen that pain, would be the leaving hiiu in your hands. 1 tberefore take your offer quilc seriously, and stipulate, mei^Iy, that it

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