Bowring, vol. X, p. 92: Bentham à Wilson, août

91. Bowring, vol. X, pp. 389-390: Bentiiam àDumont, 'JSjuin 1802 :Be«iluinntii — Benlhaniite ? what sortof an animal is Ibal? — Ican't find any such Word in Boyer's Dictionary. As to religion — to be sure a new religion would be an odd sort of thing wilhout a name : accordingly there •ouglit to be one for it at least for the professors of it. Ulilitarian (Angl.) VtUilairien (Gall.) would be the mot propre. Consult the Pliysical Class of the Institut.

92. 1811. Titre de la page : Utilitarian. — Edward, ViUilitaire répond ainsi ■à Marianne, qui incarne la sf'//.s/6t7(Ye, et admire un paysage «pittoresque»: « I bave no knowledge of the picturesque. . . 1 call it a very fine eountry... Jt exaclly answers my idea of a fine eountry, becausc it unités beauty witli utility ». Et Alariaiu e répond: oit is very Irue Ihat admiration of landscape scenery is become a mère jargon. Everebody prétends to feel and tries to describe witli the taste and élégance of liim who first defined what picturesque beauty was. 1 detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I hâve kept my tVelings to myself, becausc I could find no language to describe them in but \\ liât was worn and hackneyedout of ail sensé and meaning. »

93. Galt, Annals of the Parish ; or the Chronicle of Dalmailins:, during the rninistry of the Kev. Micah Balwhidder, written by himself, Edinburgh, 1821. — Balwhidder raconte comment, en l"9'i, sa paroisse est divisée en Government-men et Jacobins. — Sermons de Balwhidder : « that tlie Christianity of it (benevolencei was neither enlargel norbeltered by being baptizedwith theGrcek naine of pliilanthropy. \Vi h well-doing, howevei', J went roundly to work. 1 lold my people that I thought tliey had more stnse than to secede from Christianity to become ulilitarians, ior that it would be a confession of ignorance of the faith tliey deserted, seeing that it was the main duty inculcated by our religion to do ail in niorals and manners, to which the new doctrine of utility preteiided.

94. Sluart Mill, Autohiographij, pp. 79-80; — UtHitarianisin, ji. 9 note.