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91. Bowring, vol. X, pp. 389-390: Bentham àDumont, 28 juin 1802 : Ben thumilc — Benthamite? what sortof an animal istliat? — Ican't find anv sueh word in Boycr's Dictionary. As to religion — to be sure a new religion would be an odd sort of thing without a name : accord ingly there ought to be one for it at least for the professors of it. l'tilitarian (Angl.) Ulilitairieu (fiall.) would be the mot propre. Consult the Physical Class of the Institut.

92. 1811. Titre de la page : l'tilitarian. — Edward, {'utilitaire répond ainsi à Marianne, qui incarne la sensibilité, et admire un paysage «pittoresque*: « l bave no knowledge of the picturesque. . . I eall it a very fine eounlry... It exaetly answers my- idea of a fine eountry, because it unîtes beauty with utility j>. Et Mariait, e répond: « It is very true thaï admiration of landscape scenery is become a mere jargon. Everebody prétends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and élégance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. 1 detest jargon of every kind, and somelimes I liave kept my frelings to uiyself, becaus-e I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and haekneved out of ail sensé and meaning. »

93. Galt, Annal* of tlie Parish; or the Chroniele of Dalmailing, during the ministry of the Rev. Mioah Balwhidder, writlen by himself, Ediuburgh, 1821. — Balwhidder raconte comment, un 179i, sa paroisse est divisée en (fOvernment-iiien et Jacobins. — Sermons de Balwhidder : c that the Chrislianity of it (benevolencei was neither enlargei nor bellered by being baptizedwith the (ïreek name of philanthropy. Wi.h well-doing, however, I went round ly to work. I told my people that 1 thought tliey had more sensé tlian to seeede from Christianity to beeome ulilitarians, loi* that it would be a confession of ignorance of the failli they deserted, seeing that it was the main dut y inculcaled by our religion to do ail in morals and munners, to wliicli the new doctrine o( utility pretended.

94. Stuart Mill, Autobioyraphy, pp. 79-80; — Utilitarianism, p. 9 note.

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