Bowring, vol. X, p. 210 : Bentham à George Wilson

122. Dumont, Discours Préliminaire, pp. X-XI. V. Bowring, vol. I, p. 1 ;

298 NOTES. (Pp. 38-43)

préface à la 2« édit. de Tlntroduction une explication de la raison qui détermina Bentham h publier en 1789 : < Another considération is, that tbe suppression of the présent work, had itbeen ever so decidedly wfshed, is no longer altogether in his power. In the conrse of so long an interral, varions incidents bave introduced copies into various hands, from some of \%hicb they bave been transferrcd, by deaths andotbers accidents, into others that are unknown to him. Detacbed, but considérable extraets, bave cven been published, without any dishonourable views (for thename i»f tlie author \>'as very honestly subjoined to them), but \>'ithout liis privity, and in publications undertaken without his knowledge. » Mais nous n^ivons pas trouvé trace de ces publications de fragments.

1 23. liUroductioriy chap. 1, § i. Bowring, vol. X, p. 1 . — Cf. Uelvetius, deVEsprit : a II semble que... I>ieu... ait dit... à rhomme : a Je te doue de la sensibilité; c'est par elle qu aveugle instrument de mes volontés, incapable de eonnaitrc la profondeur de mes vues, tu dois, sans le savoir, remplir tous mes desseins. Je te mets sous la garde du plaisir et de la douleur, etc.

124. Introduction, chap. VIII , § i , p. 2 : the art of directing men*s actions to the production of the grcatest possible quantity of happiness, on the part of those whose interest is in view (Bowring, vol. I, p. 142).